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Wilmers, Edward Leon, SGT USA(Ret).
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Casualty Info
Home Town Detroit
Casualty Date May 17, 1968
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Mount Loretto Cemetery - Lapeer, Michigan
Built in 1942, and opened on Washington's Birthday in 1943 to care for the wounded of World War II. It became the largest military hospital in the United States. Eventually, the hospital had well over 3,000 patients and over 100 separate buildings. One feature of the hospital was its design of primarily two story buildings, interconnected by corridors. There were very long ramps leading from one floor to the other, to facilitate movement of wheelchairs and gurneys. The architecture was designed by Matthew Bookler.
The exterior was all red brick. The interior was all wood. It was a maze of corridors, and newly assigned personnel regularly became lost.
The Army planned to shut down V.F.G.H. in 1950, but the Korean War began, and it stayed open. The final closing came in 1975, although it had stopped functioning as a hospital the previous year.
