Three years in, two years and four months overseas, two campaign medals out. Constantine’s WWII Military Record and Report of Separation — the WWII-era equivalent of the modern DD-214 — issued at Fort Dix, New Jersey on March 20, 1946, the day of his honorable discharge from active duty after his US Army Medical Corps service.
Service summary
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Rank at separation | Captain, Medical Corps, Army of the United States (AUS) |
| Army Serial Number | O-515595 |
| Active duty | April 7, 1943 – March 20, 1946 (~3 years) |
| Overseas service | 2 years 4 months in EAME (European-African-Middle Eastern) theater — departed 5 September 1943, returned 5 January 1946 |
| Decorations | EAME Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal |
| Education at entry | 9 years of college |
| Service school | Medical Field Service School, Carlisle Barracks, PA (6-week Twenty-Sixth Officers’ Course, April 12 – May 20, 1943) |
| Address at entry | 370 Fort Washington Avenue (Washington Heights, NYC) |
| Address at separation | 2540 Cambreleng Avenue (Bronx, NYC) |
| Place of separation | Fort Dix, NJ |
| Signature | C.L. Jeannopoulos + right thumb print |
The 304th Station Hospital and Patton’s Third Army
Constantine was attached to the 304th Station Hospital in the European Theater of Operations, where he served as an orthopedic ward officer. The companion Separation Qualification Record recorded the most consequential operational detail: “orthopedic ward officer at a station hospital in the E.T.O. For period of four months in charge of two medical dispensaries headquarters third army” — meaning he was operationally attached to General George S. Patton’s Third Army HQ medical-dispensary network for the final four months of war operations in Europe.
The Third Army crossed the Rhine in March 1945 and pushed eastward through Bavaria, Austria, and into Czechoslovakia by V-E Day. Constantine’s medical-dispensary attachment would have placed him in the rear-area medical infrastructure supporting that advance.
Demobilization
The duplicate copy of this record reveals Constantine’s Adjusted Service Rating (ASR) score on 2 September 1945 was 65 — relatively low, hence later demobilization than the front-line combat troops with higher point totals. He was on terminal leave from January 12 to March 20, 1946 (active in name only after returning stateside), then formally separated at Fort Dix.
Family at separation
The duplicate also records 2 dependents at separation — his wife Sophie (Zofia Julia Teresa Jakowska Jeannopoulos, whom he married c.1941) and his son Peter (born October 14, 1943). Peter was approximately 2½ years old at his father’s discharge.
Civilian return to medicine
Six weeks after this separation, on May 3, 1946, Constantine registered as a physician with Bronx County (License No. 41039) and began his civilian medical career — first a VA Kingsbridge residency in the Bronx, then NY Orthopedic Hospital at Columbia-Presbyterian, eventually becoming Associate Professor of Clinical Orthopedic Surgery at NYU Medical School and Associate Attending at Bellevue.
