<ElaineAndMike.us> <Camp Ellis>
I was in the original cadre sent to Camp Ellis to open the station hospital. That was in April 1943. We were the first Army personnel at the base and opened the station hospital. The camp was still being built. I was later sent to Surgical School at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind. While there I was assigned to the 121st General Hosp and returned to Camp Ellis just a couple of weeks before we were shipped to Camp Kilmer and on to England on the Queen Mary. I was with the 121st until we finally were in Bremen, Ger. I was sent home and was released from the Army in April 1946. While in England I worked in surgery and central supply. Later, in Bremen, I was the Personal Sgt. I was later re-called to active duty (Jun 1948) and spent 3 years at the University of Illinois Medical School training in tropical medicine. I made the Army my career, served with the Army Attache Office in India, the MAAG unit in Cambodia, three years liaison duty with the Navy Hosp in Boston then with the US Army Hqs in Heidelberg, Ger. Last assignment was as the senior enlisted advisor to the Army reserve units in New Mexico and West Texas. Retired 1 Jun 1966. J.E. Inhoff e-mail address einhoff@viclink.com
I was transferred to the 121st General Hospital in May, 1944. The 121st had been organized earlier in the year. After the unit was completely staffed, we were sent to Camp Kilmer, N.J. and were there about 1 week before boarding the S.S. Queen Mary and sailed from New York Harbor on July 23, 1944, arriving in Gurock, Scotland. From there we traveled by train to near Yeovil, Somerset, England, and were there until about June, 1945 and then moved to Germany.