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COMPANY "B"
78th ARMORED MEDICAL BATTALION
U. S. ARMY
1945
SUBJECT: History of Company "B" 78th Armd Med. Bn.
Attachment to CC "B "
During the period of March 5 to 11 Inclusive.
TO: Commanding Officer, CC "B" 8th Armored Division
Company "B" 78th Armored Medical Battalion joined CC "B" on the 5th of March 1945 by verbal order of the Commanding Officer of CC "R" . We joined CC "B" s column at 0100 on the 6th of March from Grefrath, Germany and arrived at Aldekerk, Germany at 1300. We set up a temporary clearing station on the roadside. While setting up our clearing station, our ambulances platoon established an ambulance control point at Rheurdt, Germany. Then our casualties started to come in. Meanwhile we sent out a liaison Officer to locate a building so that we could set up under cover and be able to have a odn room for our patients before their evacuation to an evacuation hospital. At 1400 we moved our whole clearing station into a building about 200 yards from where we were set up temporarily on the road side and started to receive casualties from the front lines. The casualties for the day were heavy. On the 7th of March, we had to leap frog one section of our Clearing Platoon to the town of Lintfort, Germany as our ambulance control point moved up the outskirts of Rheinberg, Germany where all of the fighting was taking place, and placed our ambulances much closer to the aid stations. Our ambulance drivers at times had to make new routes of evacuation as the roads thru which they were driving became impassable after being used by all types of vehicles. During the fighting on the sixth, the ambulance drivers had to seek a new route during blackout due to a bridge being knocked out. When we had our station set up in Lintfort, Germany we closed our station that we left behind in Aldekerk, Germany when we leap frogged and had it join our present station in Lintfort, Germany. The casualties for the 7th of March were moderate. Casualties from the 8th to the 10th of March were light. Majority of the casualties that were treated at the clearing station were shrapnel wounds and small arms fire. Casualties were evacuated to the 119th Evac, 100 Evac and 20th Field Hospitals. On the 11th of March we left Lintfort, Germany and convoyed back with CC B to our present location of Venlo, Holland for a rest period.
/s/ Glen Heidepriem
Captain Med. Corps
Commanding
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