Normash

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. On December 29, 1950 the Norwegian Red Cross received a request for a hospital to help in Korea. During the first days of 1951 a plan was drafted for a field hospital based on the American Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) with 60 beds and a staff of 83. On March 2, 1951 the Norwegian Parliament approved the plan for a Norwegian field hospital. The first group of personnel left Norway on the May 16, 1951, the next group left on May 23. The trip was a long one both in time and distance, and took the men and women of NORMASH from Stavanger to Tokyo via. München, Nice, Naples, Beirut, Cairo, Karachi, Calcutta, Bangkok and Hongkong. From Tokyo the personnel were transported to Seoul by military transport aircraft.