551st United States Air Force Hospital

551st United States Air Force Hospital
Air Force
Geography
Location	24 Perry Ave, Buzzard's Bay MA 02532, Massachusetts, United States
Coordinates	Coordinates: 41°39′59.10″N 70°34′9.40″W / 41.6664167°N 70.5692778°W / 41.6664167; -70.5692778
Organization
Hospital type	Military
History
Founded	1930s
Closed	1973
Links
Lists	Hospitals in Massachusetts

The 551st United States Air Force Hospital is a former hospital at Otis Air Force Base. With the closure of the base in 1973, the hospital closed. It was the site of the birth of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy.^[1] The hospital consisted of a series of connected one-story buildings.The buildings were torn down in the early 1970s.

References

↑ America's Royalty: All the Presidents' Children, by Sandra L. Quinn-Musgrove, Sanford Kanterand, 1995.

External links

Information on a MARS radio station in the hospital
Link to Brigadier General Hamilton B. Webb
Information on room upgrade

Military installations of Massachusetts

Active

Army

Camps	Camp Edwards Camp Curtis Guild

Centers	Crosman Army Reserve Center Malony Army Reserve Center Poncin Army Reserve Center United States Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center United States Army Soldier Systems Center

Forts	Fort Devens

Heliports	Camp Edwards Heliport

Joint Bases	Joint Base Cape Cod

Laboratories	Base Camp Integration Laboratory

Joint

Centers	David S. Connolly Westover

Navy

Centers	Navy Operational Support Center Quincy

Air
Force

Bases	Barnes Air National Guard Base Hanscom Air Force Base Otis Air Force Base Westover Air Reserve Base

Stations	Cape Cod Air Force Station

Coast
Guard

Air Stations	Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod

Bases	Boston Cape Cod

Depots	United States Coast Guard Buoy Depot, South Weymouth

Stations	Boston Brant Point Cape Cod Canal Chatham Gloucester Menemsha Merrimack River Point Allerton Provincetown Scituate Woods Hole

Inactive

Army

Airfields	Hyannis Moore New Bedford Otis

Armories	Hudson Lawrence Springfield Water Shops

Arsenals	Charlestown Watertown

Bases	South Boston Army Base

Camps	Adams Andrew Banks Brigham Cameron Candoit Chase Edmunds Ellsworth Camp Framingham (Bartlett, McGuinness, Dewey) Guild Havedoneit Hill Hingham Hobson Hooker Houston Ipswich Lander Lincoln Massasoit Meigs Myles Standish Perkins Plymouth Prescott Prospect Hill Scott Sheppard South Hingham Stanton Sutton Washburn Wellfleet Wightman Williams Wool

Centers	Antiaircraft Artillery Training Center, Camp Edwards Gardner Greenfield Hingham MacArthur Millis

Firing Ranges	Popponesset Scorton Neck

Forts	Acushnet Andrew Andrews Banks Beverly Dawes Defiance Duvall Eastern Point Gilbert Heights Glover Heath Independence Juniper Lee Miller Nichols (Merrimac) Old Stone Phillip Phoenix Pickering Revere Ruckman Taber (Rodman) Salisbury Point Sewall Standish (Boston) Standish (Plymouth) Strong (East Boston & Long Island) Warren Washington Winthrop

Heliports	George H. Crosman United States Army Reserve Center Heliport

Hospitals	Lovell East Lovell North Lovell South Murphy

Labs	Army Materials Technology Laboratory

Nike Sites	B-03C B-03L B-05C B-05L B-15C B-15L B-17C B-17H B-17L B-18 B-21DC B-21HA B-36C B-36L B-37C B-37L B-38C B-38L B-40H B-55C B-55L B-63C B-63L B-73L B-84L B-85C B-85L PR-19C PR-19H PR-19L PR-29A PR-29C PR-29L

Plants	Lowell Ordnance Plant Pilgrim Ordnance Works

Proving grounds	Scituate Proving Ground

Reservations	Barneys Joy Point Brewster Islands Butler Point Calf Island East Point Elizabeth Islands Fourth Cliff Fort Rodman Grover's Cliff Long Island Lovell's Island Mishaum Point Sagamore Hill Salisbury Beach

Training	Fort Devens-Sudbury Training Annex

Navy

Air Stations	Chatham Marblehead South Weymouth State Militia Aviation Camp Squantum

Airfields	No Man's Land Navy Airfield

Ammunition Depots	Hingham (Hingham Annex)

Areas	Gull Island Bomb Tisbury Great Pond Target Weepecket Island Bomb

Auxiliary Air Facilities	Ayer Beverly Hyannis Martha’s Vineyard Nantucket New Bedford Otis

Camps	Camp Hingham Camp Plunkett

Facilities	Provincetown Mine Test Tom Nevers

Hospitals	Naval Hospital Boston

Plants	Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant, Bedford

Outlying Landing Fields	Mansfield Norwood Plymouth Westfield

Reserve Centers	Chicopee Navy & Marines, Lawrence

Ranges	Noman's Land Halifax Sandy Neck

Test Stations	United States Navy Field Test Station, Fort Heath

Yards	Boston Navy Yard (Chelsea Annex, East Boston Annex, Fuel Depot Annex, South Boston Annex)

Air
Force

Bases	Otis Westover

Centers	Electronic Systems Center

Facilities	Air Force Special Projects Production Facility Post Attack Command and Control System Facility, Hadley

Hospitals	Otis Westover

Laboratories	Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories Fort Franklin Battlespace Laboratory

Plants	28 29 63 69

Ranges	Monomoy Quabbin

Stations	North Truro Stony Brook

Texas Towers	2 3

Coast
Guard

Air Stations	Salem Ten Pound Island

Loran	Martha's Vineyard Nantucket

Stations	Manomet Point New Bedford

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