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Congresswoman Bolton in Britain. Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton of Cleveland, Ohio, talks to a wounded American soldier at a medical center in England during her tour of Britain and France in July and August, 1944.

Foto van Duitse krijgsgevangenen die onder Brits escorte afgevoerd worden langs boerderij in puin. Op voorgrond loop van tankkanon. Foto gemerkt B 14434. Tekst achterop: "BRITISH ADVANCE INTO GERMANY. For story see B. 14432. German prisoners carrying their wounded (in the village of Nutterden). 30 Corps. 15 S. Div. 2nd Gordons. Taken by Sgt. Hewitt 10.2.45". "Operation Veritable"

American hospital train in France. Staff Sergeant W.D. Barnes of Benton, Tennessee, sterilizes utensils in the operating room aboard an American hospital train which is evacuating Allied wounded from the front in France to base hospitals.

Thousands of Abyssinians perish in great Italian onslaught. An Abyssinian captive who was treated by the Italian Red Cross after he had been badly wounded in fighting on the northern front.

U.S. Red Crosss members work at general hospital on the Stilwell Road American Red Cross workers supervise craft work at a U.S. Army hospital somewhere on the Stilwell Road in the Burma-India theater of war. The American Red Cross in 1044 furnished relief for 40,000,000 (M) people in countries affected by the war through 3,000,000 (M) volunteer workers in those countries. Among its many functions, ...

'Canadian Army Overseas Photo Holland. Where patients find sanctuary from war...a civilian underground hospital in the heart of Holland, originally established to protect sick and wounded from both Allied and German bombing. Picture shows the underground operating room where doctors are operating on a two-year-old boy suffering from severe shrapnel wounds in his hip. During heavy weeks of bombing this ...

The great attack on Madrid: after the capture of Getafe. Wounded being brought back to Getafe during the attack on Madrid.

Blood plasma saves lives of French beachhead. U.S. Army Medical Corps men administer plasma to a wounded soldier on a French beachhead gained by assault troops in the initial drive to liberate Nazi-held Europe.

West Wall defenses. These German defenses about a mile back from the Normandy beach were knocked out by aerial bombardment and naval gun fire. Note the thickness of the concrete walls. This section of the beach was one of the main strong points stormed by American troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force which landed in France Jun 6, 1944. Up to midnight June 17, 1944, it had cost 15,883 U.S. casualties ...