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34th Medical Battalion (Separate)
Seventh Army
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101st Med Bn

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101st Medical Battalion (Separate)
 
Würzburg
 
(Source: Annual Report - Chief, National Guard Bureau, FY Ending 30 June 1946)
The 101st Medical Battalion is an Arkansas National Guard unit.
 
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1952
(Source: STARS & STRIPES, August 10, 1952)
Soldiers at North Kaserne, Wurzburg donned spats, and derbies today in a "country fair" benefit program based on a Gay 90's theme held in front of the Ariel Inn Service Club for German orphan children of the Wickenmayer Orphanage in Wuerzburg.

About 50 officers and EM from the 194th FA Bn, 151st Med Amb Co, 557th Med Amb Co, and (HHD,) 101st Med Bn are serving as waiters and vendors for the affair. Personnel from these units also will produce a variety show this evening.
 
(Source: STARS & STRIPES, September 7, 1952)
North Kaserne, Wurzburg: Acting as fathers, and joining with the German orphan children in games at a "Christmas in Summer" party, were men of the 603d Aircraft Warning Sq, 101st Med Bn, 151st Med Amb Co, 557th Med Amb Co and the 194th FA Bn..
 
(Source: STARS & STRIPES, December 22, 1952)
Wertheim: A menu in braille will be given residents of the home for the blind here when members of the 101st Medical Bn (Sep) entertain them at a Christmas dinner. Twenty German orphans here will be guests of the 151st Medical Amb Co (Sep) at a party. Another group of children will be feted by soldiers of the 557th Medical Amb Co (Sep).

(Webmaster note: The above two articles show that Hq/Hq Detachment 101st Medical Bn and several of its subordiante units moved from Wurzburg to Wertheim sometime between late September and early December 1952.)
 
Wertheim
 
1953
(Source: STARS & STRIPES, July 21, 1953)
Lt Col E. F. Pierce is the CO of the 101st Medical Bn at Wertheim.
 
1954
(Source: Email from Ronald H. Gordon)
On 26 November 1954, the headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 101st Medical Battalion (Sep) was designated Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 34th Medical Battalion.

The unit is presently located in Wertheim, Germany.
34th Medical Battalion (Separate)
31st Medical Group
(Source: 34th Medical Battalion Lineage)
The 34th Medical Battalion was activated 25 March 1953 in Korea.

On 25 July 1965, the battalion was inactivated in Germany. (So, when did it arrive in Germany or was it activated in Germany?

On 25 November 1966, the 34th was reactivated at Fort Benning, Georgia.
(Source: from a 31st Medical Group unit history published in the late 1950s and submitted by Ronald H. Gordon)

HISTORY BY UNIT
Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment 34th Medical Battalion (Separate)
This unit was activated 15 July 1942, at Camp Barkley, Texas, as Headquarters and headquarters detachment, 34th Medical Battalion, 30 November 1943.
During World War II, the organization participated in campaigns of Northern France, Rhineland, Andennes_Alsace and Central Europe.
Inactivation took place on 18 October 1945, at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia.
The Medical Battalion was allotted to the Regular Army, 9 February 1953, and activated 25 March 1953, in Korea.
The Battalion Participated in the Third Korean Winter, and Korean Summer Fall campaigns of 1953.
On 26 November 1954, the headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 101st Medical Battalion (Sep) was designated Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 34th Medical Battalion.
The unit is presently located in Wertheim, Germany.

95th Medical Company (Amb) (Sep)
The 95th Medical Company (Amb) (sep) was activated as the 957th Ambulance Company Motor, in Italy during September 1944.
The unit participated in the Po Valley, North Appenines, and Rome-Arno campaigns. On 25 October 1945, the unit was inactivated.
The 957th Ambulance Company Motor, was activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on 27 September 1950, and designated 95th Medical Ambulance Company.
On 19 November 1951, the unit was moved to Europe and stationed in Nurenberg.
In late 1952, the company moved to its present location in Wertheim, Germany, and was attached to the 34th Medical Battalion (Sep).

557th Medical Company (Amb) (Sep)
This unit was activated at Camp Pickett, Virginia.
It received orders for the ETO on 15 June 1952, and was stationed in the Wurzburg area.
It was moved to Wertheim, Germany, in late 1952 and attached to the 34th Medical Battalion (Sep).

655th Medical Company (Amb) (Sep)
The 655th Ambulance Motor Company was activated 12 April 1944 at Camp Swift, Texas.
The organization arrived in the ETO, 20 December 1944.
The unit was reorganized and designated 655th Motor Ambulance Company, 20 August 1945.
The Ambulance Company was inactivated 30 November 1945.
The 655th Motor Ambulance Company was designated the 655th Medical Company (Ambulance)(Separate), activated 28 January 1955, and attached to the 34th Medical Battalion.
Unit is presently located in Wertheim, Germany.
30th Medical Group
1976
(Source: Email from David Cannon)
546th Medical Company (Clearing) - REFORGER unit

Just happened to browse for one of the first units I was assigned to as a young 2LT. The 546th Medical Company (Clearing) was indeed part of the 30th Medical Group.

When I was with the 546th (1976-77) we were stationed at Ft. Benning and assigned to the 34th Medical Bn. We had a REFORGER mission and wore the 7th MEDCOM patch as best as I can recall.

The 2d Combat Support Hospital was also part of the 34th Medical Bn with a REFORGER mission and also wore the 7th MEDCOM patch.

There were a number of other medical and non-medical units that made up this non-divisional medical battalion to include the 690th Ground Ambulance Co, and the 498th Air Ambulance Company. Also had a Pathfinder Platoon and heavy lift helicopter unit, and maybe even an attack helicopter unit since the 34th Medical Bn had a LTC helicopter pilot commander.

The 546th was deactivated and reorganized as another unit probably in the 1980s as part of a medical reengineering effort.

(Source: Email from Michael Dra)
Lt Cannon was incorrect about several things.

I was assigned to the 546th in November 1975 and ETS'ed in June 1978. I served as the Bn commander's driver from January 1978 until my ETS date. I was a PV2 when I arrived and left a SP4.

The 546th was a clearing company which is to say our unit could be broken down into six battalion aid stations (two sections in three platoons).

I was with the unit (2nd platoon) when we went on REFORGER in 76. 2nd platoon was assigned to Wurzburg airfield in Germany. We provided medical support for the 101st Airborne division there.

USAREUR Medical Command patch

34th Medical Bn DUI
The patch we wore (included) was MEDCOM Europe. Our unit crest (also included) was that of the 34th Med Bn.

Our unit really had no peacetime mission so they used us as medical support for the various training going on in and around Ft Benning. This included Basic Training, Infantry AIT, the Airborne School, and the Ranger School, as well as rotating us through Martin Army Hospital. I spent every Thanksgiving (1975 - 1977) at Camp Merrill in Dahlonega, Ga., supporting the Ranger training there.

The 34th Med Bn (at that time) consisted of HHD 34th Med Bn, 478th Heavy Helicopter Co (skycranes), 498th Air Ambulance Co (Hueys), 690th Ambulance Co, 546th Med Co (Clearing), 187th Pathfinder Platoon, 121st Air Assault Helicopter Co (Cobra gunships and Huey attack helos), and the 2nd Combat Support Hospital (Evac).

The 34th Med was the unit they put companies they didn't know what else to do with in, so different companies wore different patches, but NO unit in the battalion wore the 7th Med com patch. Our Bn commander (LTC Ellingson) was a chopper pilot (as was most of the Bn HQ staff).

I stopped by the old unit in 1985 but found out it had been deactivated a couple of years before. It has since been reactivated I read at Ft Hood as the 546th Area Support Company. That must be what the Army calls Bn aid stations now.

The 34th Med seems to have been deactivated somewhere along the way as well. 2nd CSH still existed last time I looked but in 1985 it had been renamed 2nd MASH.

I know the 121st was moved to Ft Stewart and absorbed into the 3rd Inf Division (my son was in the 3rd ID in Kuwait).

The other units I have no idea what happened to them.
 
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