Abstract
EVACUATION of injured soldiers from forward areas may involve movement through aid stations, field, evacuation, station and general hospitals, and air and water transports. The missions of the various medical installations utilized in the chain of units for the transfer of casualties overlap in all or in part, and, more often than not, some units are by-passed. Thus, a patient may be flown directly from an aid station to a general hospital. Great flexibility of purpose was achieved in the station hospital overseas. Generally patterned in function after post hospitals in the Zone of the Interior, station hospitals serviced ports and such large groups as Base Section Headquarters forces, combat unit staging and training areas, replacement depots, resting personnel centers and Air Corps units. In the movement of the armed forces, the chain of events at times involved the replacement of an evacuation hospital by a station hospital, and this
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