Norman T. Kirk
Norman T. Kirk (January 3, 1888 – August 13, 1960) was a surgeon who specialized in bone and joint surgery during World War 1 and was Surgeon General of the Army from 1943 to 1947 during the height of the second World War. Biography Norman Thomas Kirk was born on January 3, 1888, in Rising Sun, Maryland, to Thomas Kirk and Anna Brown. Kirk attended Jacob Tome School and graduated in 1906. He then attended the University of Maryland. While in school he worked as a druggist during school breaks. He received his medical doctorate degree in 1910. He then worked as the resident physician at the University Hospital in Baltimore. In 1910, Kirk began working as a clinical assistant at the United States Soldiers' Home Hospital, Washington, D.C. Kirk enlisted in the Army Medical Reserve Corp on May 29, 1912, and was commissioned as a first lieutenant. He graduated from the Army Medical school in 1913 and was stationed in Texas City Texas. He was then moved out of the reserve and into the active Army medical corp. World War 1 During 1914 he worked at a Field Hospital in Vera Cruz, Mexico during an expedition against the forces