The 51st Field Hospital that joined the 3rd Field Hospital in Viet Nam and became known as the 3rd Field Hospital, was originally located at Ft. Lewis, Washington.
3rd Field Hospital (51st Field Hospital) personnel boarding charted busses to the Seattle-Tacoma Airport to fly to San Francisco.
The 3rd Field Hospital personnel boarded the USNS Upshur at the Oakland Army Terminal. This picture of a similiar troop ship, the USNS General Mitchell, was taken from aboard the USNS Upshur.
The USNS Upshur, one of many troop ships that transported military personnel from the United States to Viet Nam, took the 3rd Field Hospital personnel to Viet Nam. Two-thirds of all the troops sent to Viet Nam in the early years of the war came by ship.
Enlisted men's sleeping quarters on the USNS Upshur.
All enlisted men were quartered below deck.
Sunday Mass aboard the USNS Upshur with the 3rd Field Hospital Catholic Chaplain Tony Fagnani.
Nurse Lt. Liz Jones and Chaplain Frederick Hanley, Protestant Chaplain of the 3rd Field Hospital. Lt. Elizabeth A. Jones, along with Lt. Carol Ann Drazba , also from the 3rd Field Hospital, were the first American women killed in Viet Nam. Both were 22 years of age.
The USNS Upshur spent 24 hours at Guam. Picture of the 3rd Field Hospital personnel swimming at Guam.
Philippine Islands
Entrance to 3rd Field Hospital, Saigon
Tom Johnson in front of 3rd Field Hospital 1965
The 3rd Field Hospital, Saigon. These building were originally the American Community School in Saigon, created in 1954, providing American style schooling for the dependent children of Americans working for U.S. government organizations in Saigon.
The 3rd Field Hospital, Saigon. The school was permanently closed in February 1965 when all dependents of U.S. government personnel were ordered out of Vietnam by President Lyndon Johnson. The school buildings were then transformed into the 3rd Field Hospital.
Ambulance entrance at the 3rd Field Hospital, Saigon, being guarded by a member of the 615 Military Police Co.
Ambulance entrance to 3rd Field Hospital, Saigon
Sleeping quarters were located in the former gym of the school
Tom Johnson at 3rd Field Hospital, Saigon
3rd Field Hospital, Saigon
Unloading wounded soldiers at 3rd Field Hospital, Saigon
Blood-soaked stretchers at 3rd Field Hospital
Picture of surgery at 3rd Field Hospital
Inside the 3rd Field Hospital. Capt. Elizabeth Labbe, nurse.
Inside the 3rd Field Hospital
Chaplain, in green, speaking to soldier inside the 3rd Field Hospital
Patient outside his room at the 3rd Field Hospital
Dead soldier 3rd Field Hospital
Viet Cong prisoner at 3rd Field Hospital
Wounded American soldier being airlifted home. Nurse with back to camera is Major Wilma Chalmers.
Wounded American soldier being airlifted home
Chaplain Frederick Hanley talking with wounded American soldiers being airlifted home
Wounded American soldiers being airlifted home
Wounded American soldiers being airlifted home. Nurse is Major Wilma Chalmers.
Tan Son Nhut Airbase, Saigon
Phantom F4 jet Tan Son Nhut Airbase, Saigon
Helicopter Tan Son Nhut Airbase, Saigon
Picture of night fighting from 3rd Field Hospital
This truck was filled with American soldiers in Saigon. It came came directly to the ER after a VC had thrown a grenade into the back of the truck. Notice the grenade hole.
Hand grenade and claymore mine removed from wounded American soldier
New supply of blood
Vietnamese laborer taking smoke break
Vietnamese laborers
Australian chaplain visting 3rd Field Hospital
Korean doctor visiting 3rd Field Hospital
Major J.H. Masterson. At the time of this photo he was the CO of the 197th Armed Helicopter Company (call sign “Saber 6″).
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902-1985), Ambassador to South Vietnam 1963-1964, 1965-1968.
General William Westmoreland arriving at 3rd Field Hospital
General Westmoreland at 3rd Field Hospital
Vice President Humbert Humphrey visiting 3rd Field Hospital. Major Mutz standing in the doorway.
Vice President Humbert Humphrey visiting 3rd Field Hospital. Left is Major Wilma Chalmers.
Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978), Vice President of the United States from 1965-1969 and General William Childs Westmoreland (1914-2005), Commander of American Military Operations in Viet Nam from 1964-1968.
Left, Tom Johnson (Just to prove I was there), General William Westmoreland, Col Spurgeon Neal, MACV Flight Surgeon.
Vietnamese Red Cross workers. Lady with her back to the column and finger in the air is Dorothy Welker, Red Cross supervisor at the hospital.
Vietnamese children's orchestra at hospital. All the children had both their mother and father killed in the war
Miss Viet Nam (and me just to prove I was there)
Actor Hugh O'Brian (and me just to prove I was there)
Johnny Unitas, Baltimore Colts Quarterback 1956-1973
Danny Kaye
Charlton Heston visiting wounded soldiers at 3rd Field Hospital. Heston visited the 3rd Field Hospital on three different trips.
Charlton Heston visiting wounded soldiers at 3rd Field Hospital. He would write down the name of the wounded soldier. Also the name and phone number of his parents, wife, or girl friend.
Charlton Heston visiting wounded soldiers at 3rd Field Hospital. When Heston returned to the States, he phoned the relatives to say he had visited their son, husband, boyfriend.
Actor Charlton Heston at 3rd Field Hospital
Bob Hope show, Tan Son Nhut airbase 1965
Anita Bryant, Joey Heatherton, Jerry Colonna, Carrol Baker at 3rd Field Hospital. Right, Cpt. Bill Collyer, hospital Registrar, and Major Edith Nuttall, Chief Nurse.
Kaye Stevens 3rd Field Hospital. Stevens went on a USO tour with Bob Hope in 1965. Kay traveled to Vietnam with Hope and a group of fellow entertainers in the hopes of boosting the morale of thousands of American soldiers. She was quoted as saying “I came back (to America) and my life was in shambles because of what I saw.”
Carrol Baker 3rd Field Hospital
Bob Hope 3rd Field Hospital
Carrol Baker (and me just to prove I was there) 3rd Field Hospital
Jerry Colonna 3rd Field Hospital
3rd Surgical Hospital at Ben Hoa, 19 miles from Saigon
3rd Surgical Hospital at Ben Hoa
Chaplain's tent 3rd Surgical Hospital at Ben Hoa
Shower at 3rd Surgical Hospital, Ben Hoa
3rd Surgical Hospital, Ben Hoa
Med-Evan helicopters 3rd Surgical Hospital, Ben Hoa
Sunday morning Protestant service, 3rd Field Hospital, Saigon
Chaplain greeting after Sunday morning Protestant service , 3rd Field Hospital, Saigon
Vietnamese girl seeking help from Chaplain Hanley to go to America. Catholic Chaplain Tony Fagnani in background.
Memorial service for Lt. Carol Drazba and Lt. Elizabeth Jones, nursers from the 3rd Field Hospital, and Capt. Thomas Stasko, 3rd Field Hospital surgeon, who were killed in a helicopter crash near Saigon. Major Nuttall, Chief Nurse, and Major Mutz at far right. As a result of the crash, Major Nuttall immediately put an end to all in country travel for RNs.
Memorial service for Lt. Carol Drazba, Lt. Elizabeth Jones, and Capt. Thomas Stasko, all from the 3rd Field Hospital, who were killed, along with four others, in a helicopter crash near Saigon. The nursers were the first American nurses to be killed in the Viet Nam war.
International Church, Saigon
Chaplain Hanley, 3rd Field Hospital, with Rev. and Mrs. Gordon and Astrid Cathey, pastor of the International Church.
Herb and Lydia Jackson, pioneer Christian Missionary Alliance Missionaries, who came to Dalat, Viet Nam in 1929
Drs. Ken and Marilyn Gregerson, Wycliffe translators in Viet Nam from 1965-1975
Wycliffe translators, Saigon. Front row, left, is Henry Blood. He was captured at Ban Me Thout hospital during the Tet offensive on 1 February 1968 and died in captivity July 1968. His remains were identified 2 July 1998
Bible class taught at Saigon International Church
Jim and Jean Livingston, Christian Missionary Alliance missionaries.
Vietnamese Army Hospital, Saigon
Sp4 Tom Johnson served as the Protestant Chaplain's Assistant in Viet Nam with the 3rd Field Hospital from 15 October 1965 - 10 April 1966.
