List of General Officers of the United States Army Medical Department in World War II

During World War II, 73 officers of the United States Army Medical Department were promoted to General Officer. All are listed below with their dates of rank, most notable duty assignment during the war, and their status as of late 1946. Notes also provide other notable achievements as well as any special commemorative actions taken by the United States Army to recognize their service.[1]

Image	Rank	Name	Date of Rank	Status in December 1946	Notes
	Major General	James C. Magee	June 1, 1939	Retired 1943	Surgeon General of the Army[2]
	Major General	Norman T. Kirk	June 1, 1943	Surgeon General of the Army	Namesake of Kirk United States Army Health Clinic (formerly hospital), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
	Major General	Shelley U. Marietta	September 13, 1943	Retired 1946	Commander of The Army Medical Center
	Major General	Robert H. Mills	September 17, 1943	Retired 1946	Chief, Army Dental Corps; Namesake of Mills Dental Clinic, Fort Dix, New Jersey
	Major General	David N. W. Grant	September 19, 1943	Retired 1946	The Air Surgeon; Namesake of David Grant USAF Medical Center, Travis Air Force Base, California
	Major General	Albert W. Kenner	September 23, 1943	Office of the Secretary of War	Chief Surgeon, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force from February 1944;[3] Namesake of Kenner Army Health Clinic (formerly hospital), Fort Lee, Virginia
	Major General	George F. Lull	September 24, 1943	Retired 1945	Deputy Surgeon General
	Major General	Howard McCrum Snyder	November 3, 1943	Retired 1945	Assistant to the Inspector General of the Army; later personal physician to President Dwight David Eisenhower
	Major General	Morrison C. Stayer	November 3, 1943	Retired 1946	Chief Surgeon Caribbean Command; Chief Surgeon, North African Theater of Operations; Chief of Public Health & Welfare Officer Allied Military Government Germany[4]
	Major General	George C. Dunham	February 22, 1944	Retired 1945	Author of Textbook of Military Preventive Medicine; Director of Health & Sanitation Division, Institute of Inter-American Affairs; Namesake of Dunham Army Health Clinic, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania [5]
	Major General	Paul R. Hawley	February 27, 1944	Retired 1946	Chief Surgeon, European Theater of Operations; Later Chief Medical Officer, United States Veterans' Administration; Namesake of Hawley Army Community Hospital (closed 1995), Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana
	Brigadier General	Wallace DeWitt, Sr.	October 2, 1936	Relieved from active duty February 28, 1945;[6]	Retired June 30, 1942 and recalled to active duty on July 1, 1942;[6] Namesake of DeWitt Army Community Hospital (closed 2011), Fort Belvoir, Virginia
	Brigadier General	Raymond F. Metcalfe	December 15, 1937	Relieved from Active Duty 1946	Retired May 31, 1941[7] and recalled to active duty on December 15, 1941[6]
	Brigadier General	Leigh C. Fairbanks	January 29, 1938	Retired 1942	First General officer in Dental Corps and Chief, Dental Corps;[8] Namesake of Fairbanks Dental Clinic, Fort Hood, Texas
	Brigadier General	William L. Sheep	October 1, 1940	Retired 1945	Commanding General, Lawson General Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia[9]
	Brigadier General	Addison D. Davis	December 19, 1940	Retired 1946	Commandant, Medical Field Service School, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania[10]
	Brigadier General	Larry B. McAfee	March 1, 1941	Retired 1946	Executive Officer to the Surgeon General; Assistant Surgeon General; Commanding General, Bruns General Hospital, Santa Fe, New Mexico
	Brigadier General	Henry C. Pillsbury	April 3, 1941	Retired May 31, 1945	Commanding General, Lovell General Hospital, Fort Devens, Massachusetts[11]
	Brigadier General	Henry C. Coburn, Jr.	April 3, 1941	Relieved from Active Duty, 1945	Retired 1943; recalled to active duty; Surgeon, Fort Bragg Station Hospital
	Brigadier General	William R. Dear	April 4, 1941	Retired 1946	Commanding General, Medical Replacement Training Center, Camp Lee Virginia; Commanding General, Medical Replacement Training Center, Camp Pickett, Virginia (same unit, relocated from Camp Lee to Camp Pickett due to space issues);[12] Commanding General, Northington General Hospital, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
	Brigadier General	John M. Willis	April 5, 1941	Commanding General, Brooke Army Medical Center	Command Surgeon, United States Army Pacific Ocean Areas;[3] Namesake of Willis Hall, United States Army Medical Department Center and School, Fort Sam Houston, Texas
	Brigadier General	Roy C. Heflebower	December 15, 1941	Retired 1946	Commander, Medical Replacement Training Center, Camp Barkeley, Texas[13]
	Brigadier General	Charles C. Hillman	January 29, 1942	Commanding General, Letterman General Hospital	Chief of Professional Service Division, Office of the Surgeon General[14]
	Brigadier General	James E. Baylis	February 13, 1942	Command Surgeon, Seventh United States Army	Command Surgeon, India-Burma Theater[15]
	Brigadier General	Raymond A. Kesler	March 9, 1942	Retired 1946	Chief, Veterinary Corps
	Brigadier General	Royal Reynolds	March 20, 1942	Retired 1945	Commanding General, Kennedy General Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee;[11] Brother of Charles R. Reynolds, former Surgeon General of the Army from 1935 to 1939
	Brigadier General	Omar H. Quade	May 21, 1942	Commanding General, Fitzsimmons General Hospital	Commanding General, Fitzsimmons General Hospital[11]
	Brigadier General	Frank W. Weed	July 19, 1942	Retired April 30, 1945; Died September 29, 1945[16]	Commanding General, Letterman General Hospital, Presidio of San Francisco, California;[11] Namesake of Weed Army Community Hospital, Fort Irwin, California[17]
	Brigadier General	Edgar King	October 25, 1942	Retired 1946	Command Surgeon, United States Army Forces, Central Pacific
	Brigadier General	Frederick A. Blesse	December 4, 1942	Command Surgeon, Army Ground Forces, Fort Monroe, Virginia	Command Surgeon, Fifth United States Army[15] Namesake of Blesse Auditorium, United States Army Medical Department Center and School, Fort Sam Houston, Texas
	Brigadier General	Eugen G. Reinartz	December 4, 1942	Retired 1946	Commandant, School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph Field, Texas[18]
	Brigadier General	Hugh J. Morgan	December 4, 1942	Relieved from Active Duty 1946	Mobilized reservist; Chief consultant in Medicine, Office of the Surgeon General[19]
	Brigadier General	Fred W. Rankin	December 5, 1942	Relieved from Active Duty 1945	Mobilized reservist; Chief Consultant in Surgery, Office of the Surgeon General[19]
	Brigadier General	James S. Simmons	March 14, 1943	Retired 1946	Mobilized Reservist; Chief, Preventive Medicine Division, Office of the Surgeon General[11]
	Brigadier General	Leon A. Fox	March 16, 1943	Retired 1946	United States of America Typhus Commission[20]
	Brigadier General	Ralph H. Goldthwaite	April 25, 1943	Retired 1946	Commanding General, Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas[11]
	Brigadier General	George C. Beach, Jr.	April 26, 1943	Commanding General, The Army Medical Center	Commanding General, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas
	Brigadier General	Joseph E. Bastion	June 23, 1943	Commanding General, Percy Jones General Hospital, Battle Creek, Michigan	Commanding General, Percy Jones General Hospital, Battle Creek, Michigan [11]
	Brigadier General	Percy J. Carroll	June 23, 1943	Retired 1946	Command Surgeon, United States Army Forces in Australia; Command Surgeon, United States Army Forces in the Southwest Pacific; Commanding General, Vaughn General Hospital, Hines, Illinois [21][22]
	Brigadier General	Raymond W. Bliss	September 13, 1943	Deputy Surgeon General	Chief of Operations, Office of the Surgeon General; Surgeon General of the Army, 1947–1951; namesake of Raymond W. Bliss Army Health Center (former hospital), Fort Huachuca, Arizona
	Brigadier General	Charles R. Glenn	September 17, 1943	Air Materiel Command Surgeon, Wright Field, Ohio	Army Air Forces Training Command Surgeon; Deputy Air Surgeon[23]
	Brigadier General	Malcolm C. Grow	September 17, 1943	The Air Surgeon	First Surgeon General of the United States Air Force; namesake of Malcolm Grow Medical Clinic (formerly medical center), Joint Base Andrews, Camp Spring, Maryland
	Brigadier General	James A. Bethea	November 3, 1943	Chief Surgeon, Far East Command	Commanding General, McCloskey General Hospital, Temple, Texas[24]
	Brigadier General	Edgar Erskine Hume	January 14, 1944	Civil Affairs, Austria	Commanding Officer, Winter General Hospital, Topeka, Kansas[11]
	Brigadier General	Joseph I. Martin	January 17, 1944	Brooke Army Medical Center	Command Surgeon, Fifth United States Army; namesake of Martin Army Community Hospital, Fort Benning, Georgia
	Brigadier General	Guy Blair Denit	January 18, 1944	Office of the Surgeon General	Chief Surgeon, United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area; Chief Surgeon, United States Army Forces Far East, Chief Surgeon, US European Command (1948-1951)[25]
	Brigadier General	Earl Maxwell	January 19, 1944	Chief, Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Service, Letterman General Hospital, Presidio of San Francisco, California	Chief Surgeon, United States Army Forces, Pacific; Commanding General, 332nd Hospital Center, Okinawa; Chief Surgeon, United States Army Service Command, Yokohama[26]
	Brigadier General	Stanhope Bayne-Jones	February 25, 1944	Relieved from active duty, 1946	Mobilized reservist; administrator for the United States Typhus Commission and the Army Epidemiology Board;[27] Member of the 1964 Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health; Namesake of Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital, Fort Polk, Louisiana
	Brigadier General	Condon C. McCornack	May 31, 1944	Died November 5, 1944	Deputy Command Surgeon, Western Defense Command; namesake of McCornack General Hospital (closed 1949), Pasadena, California[28]
	Brigadier General	George B. Foster, Jr.	May 24, 1944	Retired 1946	Commanding General, O'Reilly General Hospital, Springfield, Missouri [11]
	Brigadier General	Ralph G. DeVoe	May 24, 1944	Retired 1946	Commanding Officer, Halloran General Hospital, Willowbrook, Staten Island, New York[11]
	Brigadier General	Henry C. Dooling	May 25, 1944	Chief Health Officer, Canal Zone	Assistant Chief Health Officer, Canal Zone[11]
	Brigadier General	John A. Rogers	November 10, 1944	Retired 1946	Command Surgeon, First United States Army
	Brigadier General	Robert C. McDonald	January 1, 1945	Relieved from active duty 1946	Retired 1945; recalled to active duty; namesake of McDonald Army Health Clinic (former hospital), Fort Eustis, Virginia
	Brigadier General	William A. Hagins	January 4, 1945	Surgeon, Sixth United States Army	Command Surgeon, Sixth United States Army
	Brigadier General	Rex McKinley McDowell	January 4, 1945	Headquarters, Sixth United States Army, Presidio of San Francisco, California	Dental Corps Officer, Deputy Chief, Dental Division, Office of the Surgeon General[29]
	Brigadier General	Charles B. Spruit	January 8, 1945	Retired 1946	Deputy Command Surgeon, United States Army European Theater of Operations[30]
	Brigadier General	W. Lee Hart	March 16, 1945	Relieved from active duty 1946	Retired 1945; Command Surgeon, Eighth Service Command[31]
	Brigadier General	George R. Callender	March 16, 1945	Retired 1946	Commandant, Army Medical School, Washington, D.C.[32]
	Brigadier General	Thomas D. Hurley	March 20, 1945	Retired 1946	Chief Surgeon, Third United States Army
	Brigadier General	Isidor S. Radvin	March 31, 1945	Relieved from Active Duty 1946	Mobilized reservist; Commanding Officer, 20th General Hospital, India[33]
	Brigadier General	Charles M. Walson	June 3, 1945	Command Surgeon, First United States Army, Governors Island, New York	Surgeon, Second Service Command; namesake of Walson Army Community Hospital, Fort Dix, New Jersey (closed 1995)
	Brigadier General	George W. Rice	June 5, 1945	Command Surgeon, Second United States Army, Baltimore, Maryland	Command Surgeon, Eighth United States Army
	Brigadier General	Elliot C. Cutler	June 17, 1945	Relieved from Active Duty 1946	Mobilized Reserve Officer; Chief surgical consultant to the Command surgeon, European Theater of Operations
	Brigadier General	Edward Reynolds	June 17, 1945	Retired 1946	Chief, Medical Administrative Corps[34]
	Brigadier General	Sidney L. Chappell	September 5, 1945	Retired 1946	Commanding Officer, England General Hospital, Atlantic City, New Jersey[35]
	Brigadier General	Robert M. Hardaway	September 5, 1945	Commanding General Percy Jones Hospital Center	Commanding Officer, Bushnell General Hospital, Brigham City, Utah[11]
	Brigadier General	Edward A. Noyes	September 6, 1945	Chief Surgeon, European Theater	Commanding General, Cushing General Hospital, Framingham, Massachusetts[36]
	Brigadier General	Clyde McKay Beck	September 5, 1945	Commanding General, Pratt General Hospital, Miami, Florida	Commanding Officer, Ashford General Hospital, White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia[11]
	Brigadier General	William C. Menninger	September 10, 1945	Relieved from Active Duty 1946	Director, Neuropsychiatry Consultants Division, Office of The Surgeon General[19]
	Brigadier General	William W. Vaughan	October 24, 1945	Retired 1946	Commanding General, Stark General Hospital, Charleston, South Carolina[11]
	Brigadier General	Thomas L. Smith	March 17, 1946	Office of the Surgeon General	Tenth Chief of the Dental Corps, advanced to Major General in 1947[37]
	Brigadier General	Wallace H. Graham	September 14, 1946	Attending physician to the President	Chief Surgeon, 97th Evacuation Hospital