36th Evacuation Hospital, Desert Center (Desert Center, California)

USA / California / Bombay Beach / Desert Center, California
 hospital, closed / former military, historic ruins
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Evacuation hospitals were 400 bed facilities that provided care to sick and wounded soldiers under combat conditions. The 36th Evacuation Hospital trained here from May to December 1943. During IX Corps maneuvers, it maintained a 100-bed hospital here while the rest of the unit was away on maneuvers at Camp Dunlap near Niland, CA. Camp Dunlap is now better known as Slab City.

The 36th Evacuation Hospital took part in the New Guinea, Luzon and Leyte Campaigns; the occupation of Japan; and was stationed in Vietnam from 1966 to 1969.

The historical plaque erected by the Billy Holcomb Chapter of E Clampus Vitus and the Bureau of Land Management is located just to the south.

www.military.com/unitpages/unit.do?id=107995
www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/873663.pdf
www.historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1DYG_36th-eva...
theguzzler.blogspot.com/2009/05/ecv-dedicates-desert-tr...
www.billyholcomb.com/?flagallery=2014-april-36th-evacua...
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Coordinates:   33°42'28"N   115°26'55"W
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