First Convoy to Bastogne.
The first convoy to Bastogne helped to evacuate many of the 1150 wounded soldiers in the city. This is its story.
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Antibiotics use in the ETO during WW2 by the US ARMY.
Between June 1944 and VE-day some 175.000 GIs were admitted to a US Army medical installation in the ETO due to an infectious disease. Only 314 of these men died from these infectious diseases (0,02%). The total number of men admitted to a US Army medical installation for battle injuries in the ETO was 393,987.
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SHOCK TREATMENT IN THE US ARMY DURING WW2. PART 2: WHOLE BLOOD.
The medical concepts of shock and its main cause at the beginning of WW2 led the US Armed Forces to rely on the transfusion of blood plasma as the main therapy. For more information on this and the successful blood plasma program during the War, I invite you to read part 1 of this series.
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Combat exhaustion
This Morning Report describes one soldier suffering from “battle fatigue” and the efforts of the aid men to help him. But what is “battle fatigue” exactly? What were the symptoms and signs? And how was it treated? In this article, I will explore these questions and answer them first for the US Army in general
Medical Evacuation and Treatment Series. Part 4: Battalion Aid Station.
First echelon evacuation meant getting the casualties away from the front line, as quickly as the tactical situation allowed, to a battalion aid station. Here, they would be seen by a doctor for the first time after being wounded. “Soon after dawn, we began to receive casualties, many of whom were severely wounded. The aid
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