A time bomb, planted in Countances, France, by the retreating Nazis, goes
off, injuring several GIs. Medics treat one of the injured. Debris in the
foreground is part of a jeep blown across the street by the blast. July 31,
1944 (NCP 4116). |
Pfc. Richard C. Drapper (Shaker Heights, Ohio) of the 1st Battalion Medical
Section, 337th Section, 337th Regiment, 85th Division, dresses a shrapnel
wound on an injured soldier in Grande area, Italy [circa World War II] (SC
202190). |
Korean Conflict. A member of Co. E, 187th Rgt, US Eighth Army, with a bullet
in his back, is given a morphine injection by a medic, in Korea. March
28,1951 (SC 361977). |
Korean Conflict. Pfc. McCullen (Elizabeth City, North Carolina) bandages a
small shrapnel wound in the leg of his buddy, Pfc. Englohart (New
Cumberland, West Virginia). August 24, 1950 (SC 346914). |
Hammock and bamboo pole used by two male VC/NVN to evacuate their wounded
two hours to aid station [circa Vietnam War]. |
A leg operation being performed on a communist captive at the 3rd Field
Hospital in Pusan, Korea. Performing the operation are Maj. Joseph Conroy,
Maj. Ben Musser, and Capt. Burton Canfield. January 5, 1951 (SC 358552). |
Snapshot of surgery at 131st General Hospital, England, during WWII
(Rosenberg 17). |
Kim Pung Yong, a South Korean soldier, receives medical treatment at a
forward medical aid station, preparatory to evacuation to a hospital in the
rear. September 15, 1950 (SC 348574) |
First aid station. Ambulance Co. 103. Ambulance Co. 104. Wounded German
prisoners receiving first aid treatment (WWI/Reeve 17421). |
[Patient being turned to prevent aspiration of vomitus after wounding during
the Vietnam War.] (Swan 246-A). |
Operating room with patient on table. Army Medical Dispensary (WWI/Reeve
984). |
Wounded evacuated on jeep [circa World War II] (NCP 4139). |
Surgery tent of a medical battalion on Bougainville Island, showing
operating table made of blanket wrapped litter supported by packing cases.
South Pacific. November 1943 (SC 186565). |
The wounded, resting on litters, are transported by jeep from the battalion
aid station to a clearing station, and finally to the underground surgery
room. 1943 (SC 187246). |
Blood plasma is given to the wounded at a medical station near the front
line somewhere in the South Pacific during World War II (NCP 1738). |
