Episode two of the “Invisible Excellence” podcast series, which chronicles the WWI service of Council Bluffs “Unit K," recounts events such as these: an early attempt to break up Unit K; its training and observation period with the British military; at one point, a quartet of the officers finding that the rest of the group had been transferred ahead without them (really); in Paris, the full integration of Unit K’s roster into Mobile One; and preparation of the hospital’s personnel and inventory for its first full set-up and deployment there in mid-1918.

“Unit K” was a groundbreaking group of self-organized area residents which formed the nucleus of “Mobile One,” arguably the first fully mobile military hospital in U.S. history.  

Guest is Brian Mainwaring, writer/author/researcher.

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