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 For month ending: 28 February 1945
SUBJECT: After Action Report.
TO:Commanding Officer, 78th Armored Medical Battalion,
APO 258, US Army.
SECTION I PERSONNEL:
In the month of February, this company gained one Enlisted Man, lost none. All men present for duty were paid; all were given routine monthly physical inspection and were found free from communicable diseases.
SECTION II INTELLIGENCE:
All German prisoners were immediately turned over to the IPW Teams.
SECTION III OPERATIONS:
We left Pont-A-Mousson, France, on 3 February in battalion convoy, arriving at Amby, Holland on 4 February. In Amby we were billetted in a Dutch school-house, using two large class-rooms for the clearing station. All medical work and evacuation was well and successfully accomplished without incident.
On 21 February, the company left Amby to relieve British Troops at Diergarde, Holland. Here, committed to action with Combat Command B, we had our first real battle casualties. All work, however difficult, was undertaken with highest efficiency and cooperation, and with unsurpassed coordination between platoons. Though there was much twenty-four our work, the drivers and technicians worked well at all times without complaint.
SECTION IV SUPPLY
Despite the increased need for supplies at the forward detachments, supplies ere always adequate and easily obtained.
SECTION V COMMAND:
While in Amby, the company supplied detachments with ambulances and drivers in addition to sending out a foreward detachment of our own. In this detachment, two Officers and twenty eight Enlisted Men went with a surgical truck and two ambulances to set up a station in Saeffelen, Germany. With some strain on their ingenuity, this detachment operated commendably in quarters that were comfortable only after hard work.
Upon arrival at Diergarde, an Ambulance Control Point was established close to the front lines to facilitate fastest possible evacuation; this was found to be very helpful in this instance, making for prompt evacuation and replacement of ambulances at the front. When the fighting was heaviest, the ACB allowed rotation of drivers who could, therefore, rest and work the more efficiently when called upon.
Commendations were received on ambulance drivers and litter-bearers who were of great help at the detachments by reason of hard work, willingly and well done, and quick evacuation.
/s/ Glen Heidepriem
Captain, MC
Commanding.
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