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The 95th Evacuation Hospital (Smbl) was a 320-bed air conditioned facility offering area medical support to U.S. Military units without organic medical support in the area around Da Nang, Vietnam. The hospital also provided medical care to the Free World Military Assistance Forces and civilian war casualties.
The United States Army Medical Command, Vietnam (USAMEDCOMV) provided Echelon/Role 3 Health Service Support to units of the United States Army, Vietnam (USAV). It was a Table of Distribution and Allowances organization created by consolidating the staffs of the 44th Medical Brigade and the USAV Surgeon's Office.
The first phase of construction was completed for the three hospitals authorized by the Civilian War Casualty Program; the 27th Surgical Hospital at Chu Lai, the 29th Evacuation Hospital at Can Tho and the 95th Evacuation Hospital at Da Nang. These hospitals became operation in June 1968.
45th Portable Surgical Hospital; 46th Infantry Regiment (United States) 47th Infantry Regiment (United States) 55th Medical Group (United States) 57th Medical Detachment; 67th Medical Group (United States) 68th Medical Command (United States) 75th Infantry Regiment (Ranger) 95th Evacuation Hospital; 173rd Airborne Brigade; 173rd Support ...
127th Evacuation Hospital, End of World War II [73] 128th Evacuation Hospital, Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, 12 January 1946 [ 107 ] 130th Evacuation Hospital, Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, 5 November 1945 [ 73 ]
The 67th Evacuation Hospital deployed to Qui Nhon, Vietnam in October 1966, and moved to Pleiku in January 1972. The 67th Evacuation Hospital participated in 15 campaigns during the Vietnam War and was decorated with three meritorious unit commendation streamers embroidered Vietnam 1967–1968 and 1970–1972 and 1972-1973. In March 1973, the ...
Captain Diane M. Lindsay was the first black woman to be awarded the Soldier's Medal.. In 1969 Diane M. Lindsay volunteered with the US Army Nurse Corps as a First Lieutenant at the 95th Evacuation Hospital in Vietnam, where she convinced a confused US soldier to surrender a grenade, which he had pulled the pin of and was preparing to throw within the hospital.
The year was the most expensive in the Vietnam War with America spending US$77.4 billion (US$ 678 billion in 2025) on the war. The year also became the deadliest of the Vietnam War for America and its allies with 27,915 ARVN soldiers killed and the Americans suffering 16,592 killed compared to around two hundred thousand PAVN/VC killed.