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'''The 95th Evacuation Hospital''' was a U.S [[military hospital
▲'''The 95th Evacuation Hospital''' was a military hospital in originally constituted as the 74th Surgical Hospital 21 December 1928. The 74th was activated at Fort Warren, Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1 June 1941. The unit was then reorganized and re-designated as the 95th Evacuation Hospital 14 August 1942. The unit was deactivated 3 December 1954 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. The unit was again activated on 26 March 1963 for duty in Vietnam and deactivated 28 March 1973 in Vietnam. On 15 November 1994 the unit was activated in Heidelberg Germany for operation during the Gulf War.<ref>Army Pharmacy at http://armypharmacy.org/h_burg.htm</ref>
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In the [[World War II|second world war]] The 95th Evacuation Hospital operated as a 400-bed mobile hospital. The unit was staffed with approximately 40 doctors, 40 nurses, and 220 enlisted men.<ref>pg. 30, Monahan, Evelyn, And If I Perish, Alfred A. Knopf, Random House, New York, 2003</ref> The unit served in Morocco, Algiers, Italy, France, and Germany, participating in three amphibious operations (Avalanche, Shingle, Dragoon).
The 95th Evacuation Hospital had the distinction of being the first U.S. hospital to be established on the European continent in World War II.<ref>pg. 231, Chapter VI, Wiltse, Charles M., The Medical Department: Medical Services in the Mediterranean and Minor Theaters, Office of Medical History, U.S. Army Medical Department, http://history.amedd.army.mil/index.html</ref> The hospital also achieved national recognition when it was bombed on 7 February 1944 at Anzio.<ref>needs citation</ref>
The bombing occurred when a German plane dropped a load of fragmentation bombs on the 95th Evacuation Hospital in an effort to evade two British planes.<ref>pg. 3, 95th Evacuation Hospital 1944 Annual Report, NARA RG407</ref> Twenty-eight people were killed and 60 wounded. Among the dead were two officers, three nurses, 16 enlisted men, a Red Cross worker, and two other personnel.<ref>Bombing raid report, 95th Evacuation Hospital 1944 Annual Report, NARA RG407</ref> The bombing rendered the hospital nonfunctional with damage so great, the 95th was sent to the then-static Cassino front where it was re-staffed and re-equipped.<ref>pg. 3, 95th Evacuation Hospital 1944 Annual Report, NARA RG407</ref>
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