306th Medical Battalion

306th Medical Battalion Chapel

Exterior view of front and left side of chapel and bamboo picket fence, Leyte, Philippines (July-45)

Company D, 306th Medical Battalion

Circled is James C. Griffith.
T/4 Wallace Howell is 4th from right on the first row.

Photograph provided by Kristianne Griffith-Iacono

T/3 Paoloni and PFC Altobello of Company D, 306th Medical Battalion

San Luis Obispo, California.

306th Medical Battalion Parade

Camp Beale, California

Unknown soldiers of the 306th Medical Battalion

New Caledonia

L-R: Warner, Carter, Duplechain, Antonin.

Rifle Range, New Caledonia

Captain Steinberg and Company A.

A break during a road march. New Caledonia

306th Medical Battalion Staff

Chaplain Jones, Captain Staudt, LT. Gregory, Chaplain Laurian, LT. Raymond, LT. Colonel Hill.
Leyte, Philippines

Post Hospital

Hachinohe Air Base, Japan

PFC Lee Padilla, 38014649, (KIA) served with Company A, 306 Medical Battalion

PFC Padilla was killed in action on October 21, 1944, on Five Brothers Ridge, Peleliu. He is currently resting in the Manila American Cemetery. He is one of two members of the 306th Medical Battalion to be killed in combat during WWII.

Pvt Wilber L. Johnson, 13036772 (KIA), served with Company B, 306th Medical Battalion

PVT Johnson, a litter bearer, assisted in evacuating numerous casualties over challenging terrain (Bloody Gulch, Angaur Island). Repeatedly, he traversed this area under enemy machine guns and mortar fire to administer and evacuate the wounded. While engaged in the evacuation of a casualty, he was mortally wounded by machine gun fire on 23 September 1944. He died of his wounds later that day. He was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action and the Purple Heart for wounds received in action.

PVT Jesse W. Bales, 39734499

PVT Bales served with Company B, 306th Medical Battalion. He died non-battle on 7 August 1945. He died as a result of a swimming accident in
which he fractured his cervical spine with transection of the cord
caused by diving.