An American soldier, a casualty of the war in the Pacific, lies on a cot in a cathedral on Leyte, the Philippines, waiting for treatment for a bullet wound in his stomach.
An American soldier, a casualty of the war in the Pacific, lies on a cot in a cathedral on Leyte, the Philippines, waiting for treatment for a bullet wound in his stomach.
Medical personnel help patients into a 3/4-ton Ambulance for evacuation to an Army Hospital in the rear.
Partial document illustrating T/O 8-590, dated 1 April 1942, listing 31 Commissioned Officers and 192 Enlisted Men. Vehicles were limited to 4 3/4-ton Ambulances, 1 5-Passenger Light Sedan Car, 2 1/4-ton Trucks, 7 3/4-ton Weapon Carriers, and 4 2 1/2-ton Cargo Trucks (the previous T/O 8-233 dated 1941 indicated a total of 28 Officers & 189 EM).
A Nurse of the 15th General Hospital in Liège, Belgium checks the blood pressure of one of her patients.
View of a General Hospital, at Bayreuth, Germany, late August 45. The building was a former German ‘Reserve-Lazarett (local reserve, or emergency hospital) which was taken over by American Occupation Forces. Revised post V-J Day hospitalization plans for Germany provided 38 Hospitals to serve the US Occupation Forces, including 8 General Hospitals - 10 Field Hospitals - and 1 Convalescent Hospital. By 1 Jan 46, this number was already down to 35 Hospitals, of which 16 were non-operational, awaiting re-deployment or inactivation. Mid-46, only 21 Hospitals remained with a total of 12,000 beds.
