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73 (22 dead and 51 survivors). At 02.42 hours on 11 March 1943 the William C. Gorgas (Master James Calvin Ellis Jr.) in station #131 of convoy HX-228 was hit on the starboard side amidships by one FAT torpedo from U-757. The explosion opened a hole 15 feet in diameter at the engine room, killed the three men on watch below and flooded the room.
Surgeons General. WILLIAM CRAWFORD GORGAS (October 3, 1854 - July 3, 1920), Surgeon General, January 16, 1914 - October 3, 1918, was the son of General Josiah Gorgas, a native of Pennsylvania who graduated from the United States Military Academy in the class of 1841. Assigned to the ordnance service, he was in command of Mount Vernon Arsenal ...
Description. Biography from the Dedication of the Gorgas Steam Plant that occurred on September 16, 1944 at Gorgas, Alabama. "William Crawford Gorgas was born October 3, 1854, near Mobile, Alabama, the son of General Josiah Gorgas and Amelia Gayle Gorgas. Failing to secure an appointment to West Point, he decided to enter the Army as a doctor.
William C. Gorgas. William Crawford Gorgas (1854-1920) was a physician in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. He fought yellow fever in Panama, contributing to the building of the Panama Canal, was elected president of the American Medical Association, and served as U.S. Army Surgeon General. Courtesy of the University of Alabama W.S. Hoole Special ...
At the turn of the 20th century, the physician William Gorgas led work that substantially mitigated mortality from mosquito-borne diseases among workers building the Panama Canal. The waterway launched the United States to political and economic superpower status by eliminating the need for risky maritime travel around the southern tip of South ...
The American sanitary campaign in Panama, led by William C. Gorgas, is often celebrated as one of the great achievements of the construction era. American sanitarians entered Panama with a crucial edge over their French predecessors: they were the beneficiaries of the Reed Commission’s work in Havana in 1900 that confirmed the Aedes aegypti ...
William C. Gorgas. William Crawford Gorgas KCMG (Toulminville, Alabama, 3 de outubro de 1854 - Londres, Inglaterra, 3 de julho de 1920) foi um médico do Exército dos Estados Unidos e 22º Cirurgião Geral do Exército dos EUA (1914-1918). Ele é mais conhecido por seu trabalho na Flórida, Havana e no Canal do Panamá para reduzir a ...
