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Yale Goes to War: The history of ‘The Yale Unit,’ Mobile Hospital No. 39

Mobile Hospital No. 39 in France — also known as The Yale Unit — was the first of its kind in the American Expeditionary Forces.

Physician Joseph Marshall Flint, professor of surgery at the Yale School of Medicine, organized Mobile Hospital No. 39 in France — also known as The Yale Unit — the first of its kind in the American Expeditionary Forces. Realizing they would not have the resources they needed to create a general hospital, Flint and his colleagues adopted a French concept for mobile hospitals. Mobile Hospital No. 39 was staffed by Yale medical faculty and students and supported with funds from the Yale Corporation.

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Part of the In Focus Collection: Yale remembers World War I

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