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Nurse tends wounded Chinese on Salween River front. A nurse binds the wounds of a Chinese soldier, while one of his wounded comrades awaits his turn, during the recent fighting along the Salween River during which the Chinese beat off a Japanese offensive. Many of China's war nurses have been trained by the American Red Cross. NI 9266

U.S. Army centers in England rehabilitate wounded. Soldiers, wounded in France, do a therapeutic exercise to regain strength in their leg and back muscles on the lawns of a U.S. Army rehabilitation center in England. In the background, soldiers recently released from a hospital march in to begin the training. Similar centers have been established all over England to prepare wounded men from France ...

Wounded soldiers evacuated by air to the U.S. Flight nurses relax around the fire, after the last Skymaster has taken off for the United States from the great trans-Atlantic airdrome in Prestwick. These nurses fly back and forth from the Continent to England, administering to the wounded as they fly. Their next trip may take them back to America with a load of homeward-bound wounded U.S. soldiers. ...

U.S. Army centers in England rehabilitate wounded. An American soldier, whose arm was wounded during the first days of fighting on the Normandy beaches, is taught a therapeutic exercise to strongthen his injured muscles at a U.S. Army rehabilitation center in England. After several months in a hospital, these centers help to prepare men wouded in France or Italy for combat duty again.

U.S. wounded brought ashore on New Guinea. An American soldier, wounded in the fighting against the Japanese on the Wake Islands, off the northern coast of New Guinea, is carried ashore from an LST (landing ship-tank) vessel at Hollandia, newly won U.S. base 200 miles to the east. The two strategic Wake Islands were captured by the Americans on May 19, 1944, after a three-day battle.

British Red Cross convoy arrives in Harar with wounded. The British Red Cross ambulance convoy arriving in Harar with wounded from the Ogaden front.

Wounded U.S. soldier receives blood plasma. U.S. medical corpsmen administer blood plasma to a soldier of the Seventh U.S. Army who was wounded while on patrol duty. The blood plasma is given as the wounded man is brought from a first aid station of the 103rd Division to an evacuation hospital for further treatment.

U.S. gliders fly wounded troops from Germany. The pickup cord is set on poles and the ambulance-glider in the background is ready to be snatched up by a C-47 transport plane circling around overhead.

Wounded U.S. soldiers rehabililtated in England. U.S. soldiers wounded in action on European battlefields learn how to use their damaged limbs all over again with bed exercises at a U.S. Army hospital in England. Soldiers shown participating in the rehabilitation program are, left to right: Private Thomas B. Hart of Benton, Illinois, and Sergeant Irving L. King of Fairport, New York.

Americans wounded in European theater reach home. U.S. Army men lift a wounded soldier from a hospital plane at the Atlantic City, New Jersey, Naval Air Station while Lieutenant Ann Markowitz, Second Ferrying Group Flight nurse, supervises the unloading. A Navy surgeon, standing in the plane, crosses the patiet's name off his list. Special planes carried 640 service men and women wounded from Halloran ...

Wounded Americans at field hospital in Normandu. A U.S. Army medical corpsman (foreground) gives a light to one of the wounded American soldiers lying on stretchers outside an American field hospital in Normandy.As the Americans overwhelmed German defenmses to liberate the Cherbourg Peninsula, their casualties numbered more than 25,000 in killed, wounded and captured. The enemy however, lost 42,500 ...

U.S. medical corpsmen evacuate wounded soldier. U.S. medical corpsmen place an American infantry casualty into an ambulance for evacuation to the rear after giving the combat soldier first aid treatment at a medical aid station near the front lines where he was wounded December 14, 1944, in the Allied drive west of Bitche in Northern Alsace.