Vintage “Surgeon General of the Army\" Leonard Heaton Hand Signed FDC For Sale

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Vintage “Surgeon General of the Army\" Leonard Heaton Hand Signed FDC:
$149.99

Up for sale the "Surgeon General of the Army" Leonard Heaton Hand Signed First Day Cover.

ES-9279

Leonard Dudley Heaton

(November 19, 1902 – September 10, 1983) was Surgeon General of the United States

Army from 1959 to 1969. Heaton was born

in Parkersburg, West Virginia. As an

undergraduate he attended Denison University in Granville,

Ohio graduating in 1922. He then attended the University of Louisville where he would

earn his medical degree four years later. Heaton was commissioned as a first

lieutenant in the Medical Corps Reserve immediately following his

graduation from medical school. In 1940 he was assigned as Chief of Surgical

Service in Hawaii. He was among the attending surgeons in the aftermath of the

attack on attack on Pearl Harbor, where he operated

and treated the wounded for over 24 hours straight. With the entrance of the

United States into World War II, Heaton was assigned to the European Theater of Operations.

Soon after D-Day, he was appointed as the Commander of the 802d Hospital Center

in Blandford, England where he had over 12,000 people working under him. After

the war, Heaton was promoted to Brigadier

General in 1948. He held many posts including being the commander of

the Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington,

DC. He became the tenth officer to command the hospital. General

Heaton was made Surgeon General of the Army in June 1959, and was promoted to

Lieutenant General (three stars) in September, 1959. He was the first Army

medical officer to attain this rank, and served a longer term as Surgeon

General than any other officer since 1931. Aside from administrative duties,

Heaton continued to surgically operate. Among his many patients included

President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and Generals of the Army Douglas

MacArthur, and George C. Marshall. As surgeon general, he

oversaw the expansion and deployment of Army medical services to Southeast

Asia and advocated for the increased use of helicopters for medical evacuation operations in the Army. He

retired from the Army in 1969 and died at his beloved Walter Reed in 1983.

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