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Battlefield Surgery 101: From the Civil War to Vietnam Photo Gallery

An enlisted man of the 26th Portable Hospital applies an adhesive bandage to the stomach wound of a patient. Biak Island, Dutch New Guinea. June 18, 1944 (SC 239005).

Sgt. Ralph Lanhan (Orrville, Ohio), 38th Infantry Regiment Medical Section, treats the foot of a member of the regiment, wounded in the bitter battle for Hill 1179. July 30, 1951 (SC 376097).

Medical Corps field sterilizer. England. January 1943 (SC 165448).

Wounded arriving at triage station, Suippes, France, from sanitary train (WWI/Reeve 17413).

Treatment of wounded at a battalion aid station below Bologna, Italy. April 19, 1945 (NCP 4128).

Bamboo surgical tables. Vietnam (46-1).

French x-ray truck and the generator that supplies light to the tents, formerly the Yale University Mobile Unit. December 19, 1918 (SC 3341).

American wounded receive treatment in the square at Troyes, France. August 26, 1944 (NCP 4120).

Medics treat wound in right thigh (NCP 4135).

Medics operate in tent on patient with multiple leg wounds (NCP 4136).

Military surgical operation with unmasked anesthetist observing (NCP 4141).

Medics administer blood plasma to an American casualty wounded when his division command post was shelled. Leyte Island, Philippines. October 22, 1944 (SC 196094).

 

Military doctors operate in tent with full surgical preparation (NCP 4142).

Soldier wounded when Japanese air-raided an airstrip somewhere in New Guinea. Cpl. Henry Chum (Washington, DC) received plasma at field hospital. New Guinea. May 11, 1943 (SC 169336).

 


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