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

Operation for hernia, Walter Reed Hospital, showing motion picture camera in action. 1918. Walter Reed General Hospital (WWI/Reeve 562-B).

Evacuated wounded transferred by stretcher from ... plane to ambulance (NCP 4124).

The color television camera in Operating Room #6, Walter Reed Army Hospital, is equipped with a turret of lenses of various focal lengths. The camera looks at the surface of a mirror, which is suspended at an angle above an aperture within the center of an operating light that is always focused on the operating field. Around the operating table are Capt. Crisonia Tirado-Gonzales, anesthetist; Capt. Alphose C. Gomez, surgeon; 1st Lt. Norman D. Sower, surgical assistant; and Capt. Dorothy Goldsmith, scrub nurse. November 14, 1957. SC 521403.

First aid: interior of an advanced dressing station operating theatre. British Army (WWI/Reeve 805).

One of the operating rooms, Mars Hospital Center (WWI/Reeve 13424).

Wounded evacuated by stretcher onto hospital train (NCP 4138).

Evacuation-loading patients on hospital train (NCP 4121).

A surgical operation [aboard a hospital train circa World War I] (NCP 2440).

Operating Room, 131st General Hospital, England, during World War II (Rosenberg 5).

Nurse and doctor relax outside of operating room at 131st General Hospital, England, during World War II (Rosenberg 6).

USS Relief, operating room (starboard to port). Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. February 14, 1921.

Operating room in an evacuation hospital near Luneville, France, 1944 (NCP 1739).

Medical corpsmen attend patients awaiting surgery while surgeons operate on others on platform (rear center) at the 60th Field Hospital in St. Max, France. October 3, 1945 (SC 210134).

Operation on John Coolidge performed at 1st Field Hospital Unit. June 16, 1918 (SC 14775).

1 June 1944; 13 June 1944; 20 June 1944: Fractured left humerus with gas gangrene. Borden General Hospital (NCP 4130-4132).

Patient loaded onto [ambulance circa World War II] (NCP 4137).

An operating room in the Medical Unit Self-contained Transportable (MUST) at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas [circa 1960s] (NCP 195).

Capt. Shaddock, assisting nurse, and patient suffering from a gangrene infection. Australia. September 21, 1942 (SC 169497).

   
 

A dressing station on the U. S. Army Hospital Ship Milne. 1st Service Command, 1945 (SC 223829).

 

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