This is part of a larger enterprise.
Our personal documentation includes 17 letters to family and friends (82,000 words, total) and the negatives (about 500, now digitized).
The project is to correlate the photos and the letters, and to present them in the proper chronological order, with actual dates and places instead of the vague references required by military security.
I know something of his locations from enlistment August 1, 1942, in Madison Wisconsin.
Thence to Carlisle Barracks for Officer Basic (1 month)
Thence to Co. B, 82nd Medical Bn, 12th Armored Division, Camp Campbell, KY
TDY at Northwestern Medical School Chicago, IL Chicago, IL 6 week Surgery of the Extremities Course, July 4 -August 13, 1943.
Then the trace gets muddy. Probably back to Camp Campbell.
BUT he writes when he is preparing to embark for Europe that he left from Camp Carson. No data on assignments that got him there, nor of the precise date. How did he get there. He once mentioned being at or near Camp Polk. With what unit?
He embarks presumably from New York, New York to United Kingdom 2 July 1944, arriving UK 15 July 1944.
Do not know where he was stationed in UK. Assume it is with the 419th MCC.
Assume about early September 1944 departs UK to France.
On Sept 15, 1944, the 419th MCC is attached to 240th Medical Battalion, to supplement 102nd Evacuation Hospital. The 1944 Annual Report tracks the 419th MCC to the end of December. 1944 report SOURCE: https://achh.army.mil/history/book-wwii-bulge-240thmedbn-240thmedbn1944
I hope that a 1945 annual report from the 240th Medical Battalion might help. Have not yet found one. Then, what changes were made in the organization for Occupation.
According to annotations accompanying photographic negatives we discovered after his death, he seems to have tracked generally a course with Patton's 3rd Army until VE Day.
His last months in active duty overseas were in Fussen, Germany associated with one or more Displaced Persons hospitals.
He departed Europe December 11, 1945, arriving USA December 21 1945. On terminal leave until March 19, 1946.
American Theater Ribbon, 2 Overseas Service Bars, EAME Theater Ribbon w/4 Battle Stars, Victory Medal.
His discharge papers show his last unit as 59th Field Hospital.