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Rh to enemy attack to scatter their stocks of reserve medical supplies and personnel as widely as possible. Mobile Base Hospital No. 2 had been landed at Pearl Harbor in November. The buildings on the hill were a little more than half completed. A hundred casualties were sent up there and cared for. Naturally, the most serious cases were sent to the main naval hospital. Another temporary field hospital, staffed by medical officers and equipped with material taken from ships damaged during the raid, was set up in the large main room of the Officers' Club in the navy yard.

Immediately after the raid, plans were drawn up and carried through for setting up emergency hospitals and stores of supplies all over the reservation. A number of these were built underground. The same arrangements were carried out at Midway Island, and only just in time. When the enemy struck there, and the hospital was the first building hit, medical equipment was safe underground.