Patients being loaded in ambulance plane, Maingkwan, Burma
- Contributor(s):
- United States. Army National Museum of Health and Medicine. Otis Historical Archives. Museum and Medical Arts Service Photographs
- Publication:
- Produced: 20 March 1944
- Language(s):
- No linguistic content
- Format:
- Still image
- Subject(s):
- World War II Wounds and Injuries Hospitals, Military
- Genre(s):
- Archival Materials Photographic prints
- Abstract:
- Courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine: "The patients were brought by ambulance from the the 42nd and 46th Portable Surgical Hospital below Walabum, Burma. The patients were then flown to Ledo for 73rd and 20th General Hospitals.". The auxiliary surgical hospitals (later called Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals) were conceived and developed by DeBakey and the Surgical Consultants in the first years of World War II. They greatly improved battlefield injury survival rates by getting surgical care closer to the front lines. Photos like this, taken during the last years of the war, provide a closer look at the operations of the surgical units.
- Copyright:
- This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use.
- Extent:
- 1 pages
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101743405X297 (See in Profiles in Science)
- Profiles in Science ID:
- FJBBSP
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101743405X297
- Archival Collection:
- The Michael E. DeBakey Papers (Profiles in Science)