Personnel in World War II (1963) By Medical Department, United States Army
 
During World War II, the U.S. Army Medical Department reached a personnel strength which it had never before attained. Its peak strength of 700,000 was three times that of the entire Regular Army in 1939 and four times that of the combined Union and Confederate Forces at the Battle of Gettysburg.
 
In contrast to personnel procurement in most other arms and services, the entire officer corps of the Medical Department, exclusive of the Medical Administrative Corps, had to be procured directly from qualified civilian professional groups. It could not be obtained through officer candidate schools. Furthermore, the personnel required were in a critical category, and the need for them was immediate and urgent.
 
This volume of the history of the U.S. Army Medical Department in World War II is the story of how the enormous personnel expansion was achieved; of how qualified medical personnel were secured; of how the wartime military medical establishment was utilized and the highest standards of professional medical care were maintained; and, finally, of how the wartime Medical Department was contracted to a peacetime level.
 
Hard Cover
548 Pages
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