Background
Halbouty, Manah Robert was born on April 28, 1914 in Beaumont, Texas, United States. Son of Tom C. and Sodia (Monolley) Halbouty.
Halbouty, Manah Robert was born on April 28, 1914 in Beaumont, Texas, United States. Son of Tom C. and Sodia (Monolley) Halbouty.
Doctor of Medicine, Tulane University, 1937. Graduate, School Aviation Medicine, 1940. Graduate, Med-Field Service School, 1941.
Graduate, Army Air Staff Command & General Staff School, 1944.
Intern St. Paul's Hospital, Dallas, 1937—1938, resident internal medicine, 1938—1939. House doctor Missouri-Kansas-Texas R.R. Hospital, Denison, Texas, 1939—1940. Aviation medical examiner, flight surgeon, senior flight surgeon, chief flight surgeon & medical aircraft observor.
Research aviation medicine Mayo Clinic, 1941—1942. Assistant chief medical processing center SAACC, Texas, 1942. Medical director high altitude flying Headquarters Southeast Air Training Center, Maxwell Field, Alabama, 1942—1943.
Hospital Commander Ohio, 1943—1944, Florida, 1943—1944. Troop carrier wing surgeon Italy, 1944—1946, Germany, 1944—1946. Commander hospitals, wing and base surgeon New York, 1946—1957, Alabama, 1946—1957, Arizona, 1946—1957, Texas, 1946—1957.
Division surgeon 43d Air Division, 1957—1960. Commander 8th Tactical Hospital, 1957—1960, 6160th United States Air Force Hospital, 1957—1960, Itazuke Air Force Base, Japan, 1957—1960. Chief flight surgeon, division surgeon 819th Air Division United States Air Force Hospital.
Commander, director Base Medical Services Hospital & Group. Member physical evaluation board United States Air Force Headquarters, 1966—1968. United States Air Force surgeon general's staff medical representative United States Air Force Physical Review Council, Headquarters United States Air Force Military Personnel Center, 1968—1974.
Chief Medical Board Review Service, 1974—1980, Wilford Hall, 1974—1980, United States Air Force Medical Center, San Antonio, 1974—1980. Consultant Military, Virginia medical disability system cases, since 1982. Chairman department medical boards and examinations, 1980—1983.
Ltd. practice family medicine. Practicing medical clinician Randolph Air Force Base Hospital, Wilford Hall United States Air Force Medical Center. Commissioned 1st lieutenant United States Army Air Force, 1940, advanced through ranks to col United States Air Force, 1951.
Fellow American Academy Family Physicians. Member Association Military Surgeon"s United States, Aerospace Medical Association United States, Japanese-American Medical Association (founder), Association United States Flight Surgeons, American Heart Association, The Society Medical Conservation to the Armed Forces. Died March 24, 1994.
Married Gracye Collinsworth Halbouty, March 23, 1940. 1 child Michel Robert William.