During World War I , Munson was in the office of the Surgeon General as Chief of the training division and was promoted to Brigadier General in late 1918 . Edward Munson was ordered to Japan to command an American medical relief unit after the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923 . He took a third assignment to the Philippines , and finally commanded the Medical Field Service School at Carlisle Barracks in 1931 before his retirement in 1932
Great Kantō earthquake
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
Edward Lyman Munson