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Welcome to the Military logistics and medicine task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below. The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here. Scope This task force covers all topics related to military logistics and military medicine, including units, branches of service, installations, personnel, techniques, theories, and related technology, equipment and vehicles developed for military purposes. It encompasses logistics and medicine at sea, on the ground, and in support of aerial operations. Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Logistics-and-medicine-task-force=yes or Logistics-and-medicine=y to the {{WPMILHIST}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:Military logistics and medicine task force articles.

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Article statistics

The table to the right shows the current article assessment statistics for this task force. A list of the top 500 most popular articles within our scope, as well as the number of page views each article received over the past month, can be found here. With most of our articles assessed as Stub- or Start-Class, there's a lot of work to be done. However, we also have a number of good, A-Class, and featured articles, which have been assessed as amongst the best Wikipedia has to offer. These article serve as a yardstick for what can be achieved and should be aimed for, and can provide ideas about how to write an article and what sources to consult; they are listed below: Featured articles Allied logistics in the Southern France campaign Allied logistics in the Kokoda Track campaign American logistics in the Normandy campaign American logistics in the Northern France campaign American logistics in the Western Allied invasion of Germany American services and supply in the Siegfried Line campaign American transportation in the Siegfried Line campaign British logistics in the Falklands War British logistics in the Siegfried Line campaign British logistics in the Western Allied invasion of Germany British logistics in the Normandy campaign AHS Centaur Rupert Downes Neil Hamilton Fairley INTERFET logistics A-Class articles Roy Burston Cadet Nurse Corps James Cannan History of military logistics Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo Battle of Pusan Perimeter logistics Good articles African Auxiliary Pioneer Corps Beulah Ream Allen Marc Bloch Cadet Nurse Corps SB Centaur Operation Chastity Daniel Sickles's leg William Henry Egle Vera Gedroits Jim Laker Land mines in the Falkland Islands John C. H. Lee Macedonian Mule Corps Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo Battle of Pusan Perimeter logistics State communications in the Neo-Assyrian Empire Theodore Stephanides Vanuatu Labor Corps

Military logistics and medicine task force assessment statistics Articles Lists FA 15 FL 0 A 6 AL 0 GA 15     B 108 BL 0 C 300 CL 6 Start 567 List 17 Stub 121     Total 1,132 Total 23 Other pages Category 294 Disambig 2 Draft 1 File 35 Portal 0 Project 0 Redirect 436 SIA 2 Template 17 User 0 Total 787 Unassessed 0 Statistics ω 5,230 Ω 4.528 category

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Battlefield medicine • Combat medic • Field hospital • Military logistics • Royal Canadian Army Service Corps • Royal New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps • United States Army Ambulance Service • Monkton Farleigh

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2nd Field Ambulance (Australia) • 11th Field Ambulance (Australia) • Allied logistics in the Burma campaign • Australian Army Postal Corps • Logistics support to the International Force East Timor

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Aeromedical evacuation • Army engineering maintenance • Army Postal Service (India) • Australian Army Transportation Corps • British logistics in the Second Boer War • Cedric Stanton Hicks • Line of communication • Medical Corps (Ireland) • Medical Corps (Israel) • Medical evacuation • Military medicine • Regimental Aid Post • Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers • Royal Australian Army Service Corps • Royal Logistic Corps • Royal New Zealand Army Logistic Regiment • Sea lines of communication • South African Medical Service • Transport Corps (Ireland) • Hadfield-Spears Ambulance Unit • Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organization

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British logistics in the Second Boer War

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6 Medical Battalion Group • Armed Forces Recipe Service • Army Medical Corps (India) • Army Ordnance Corps (India) • Australian Army Catering Corps • Army Medical Service (Germany) • Carrier Corps• Mess • United States Army Ordnance Corps • Royal Australian Corps of Transport • Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps • Royal Canadian Medical Service • South African Military Health Service • United States military ration • Monkton Farleigh

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• 24 Dec 2023 – Vehicle recovery (military) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Vehicle recovery by Sauer202 (t · c); see discussion

Resources

Logistics

• Duffett, Rachel (2015). The Stomach for Fighting: Food and the Soldiers of the Great War. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-9987-8.
• Hess, Early (2017). Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807167526.
• Gropman, Alan, ed. (1997). The Big 'L': American Logistics in World War II. National Defense University Press. pp. 265–92.
• Huston, James A. (1966). The Sinews of War: Army Logistics, 1775–1953. United States Army. ISBN 9780160899140.
• Kress, Moshe (2015). Operational Logistics: The Art and Science of Sustaining Military Operations (2nd ed.). Springer. ISBN 9783319226743.
• Stone, Trevor (2017). Sustaining Air Power: Royal Air Force Logistics Since 1918. Fonthill. ISBN 978-1-78155-635-1.
• Thorpe, George C. (1917). Pure Logistics: The Science of War Preparation. Kansas City, Mo.: Franklin Hudson Pub. Co. OCLC 6109722.

Medicine

• Butler, A. G. (1938). The Australian Army Medical Services in the War of 1914–1918 (2nd ed.). Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 3954904.
• Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services, 1914–1918, 3 volumes
• Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Series 5 – Medical, 4 volumes
• "Medical logistics during Operational Iraqi Freedom". Army Logistician. 36 (No. 3 (May – June)): 6–7. 2004. {{cite journal}}: |issue= has extra text (help)
• Quail, Geoffrey Grant (2017). Lessons Learned: The Australian Military and Tropical Medicine. Australian Army History Collection. Newport, New South Wales: Big Sky Publications. ISBN 978-1-925520-22-4.
• "The changing face of medical logistics in Afghanistan". Army Logistician. 36 (No. 5 (Sep – Oct)): 14–17. 2004. {{cite journal}}: |issue= has extra text (help)
• Tyquin, Michael (1993). Gallipoli: The Medical War. Sydney, New South Wales: University of New South Wales Press. ISBN 9780868401898.
• Tyquin, Michael (2003). Little by Little: A Centenary History of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps. Sydney, New South Wales: Australian Military History Publications. OCLC 819680082.
• Journal of Military and Veterans' Health
• Military Medicine Documents at USU Archive
• Virtual Naval Hospital – a digital library of military medicine and humanitarian medicine