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U.S. Nurse cares for Aliied wounded in ambulance plane. A U.S. Army nurse takes down particulars about wounded Aliied soldiers who are being flown in an ambulance plabe from a point behind the front lines in Italy to a hospital in North Africa.

U.S. Capitol dome again illuminated A wounded U.S. soldier and his family look at the dome of the Capitol in Washington which was lit on V-E Day, May 8, 1945, for the first time since December 7, 1941. When the Japanese attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawai to start the Pacific war, the flood lights that shine on the Capitol dome and the Statue of Freedom above were blacked out for ...

Wounded U.S. Army men learn to play badminton. U.S. soldiers who have had limbs amputated play a game of badminton in the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, the U.S. capital, as their fellow-patients look on. The handicapped men learn many new recreational and vocational skills, as part of the Army's reconditioning program. U.S. Acting Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson reported that Army casualties ...

Verenigde Staten. Wounded U.S. soldiers receive medical attention at front. Two U.S. medical corpsmen administer frist aid to wounded soldiers, lying in the snow, seconds after they fell under a mortar barrage from the enemy on the northern flank of the Ardennes salient. Soldiers of mercy, medical men go right to the front lines with the combat troops. Carrying medical equipment, blood plasma and whole ...

Wounded U.S. Marines receive blood plasma on Saipan Island. A U.S. Navy Corpsman administers blood plasma to a wounded American Marine (left) while other Marines (right), injured during the initial fighting on Saipan Island. await their turn. American casualties during the conquest of the strategic Marianas island totaled 15,053 - 2,359 killed, 11,481 wounded and 1,213 missing - by July 10, 1944. By ...

'21 Aug. 1945. Wounded veterans return to homes in Canada. When the Canadian hospital ship Lady Nelson docked at Halifax Tuesday, she carried approximately 450 Canadian personnel injured overseas. Aboard were the pair shown above, Pte. Chatel of Woodbridge, Manitoba, and right, Pte. D. Crow of Kenora, Ontario. Pte. Chatel suffered a wound in the left hand when a bullet pierced it following an attack ...

Wounded U.S. sailor prays in Admiralty Island chapel. A U.S. Navy sailor, wounded in the battle for the Philippines, stands before the altar of a hospital chapel in the southwest Pacific Admiralty Islands. U.S. forces completed the occupation of vital areas in the southwest Pacific island group in March, 1944. Since that time, the men stationed on the island built 15 chapels, each unique. Eighteen ...

Wounded U.S. soldier gets blood plasma on way to Saipan field hospital. An American soldier wounded while fighting the Japanese on Saipan Island in the Central Pacific, receives a blood plasma transfusion administered by a medical corpsmen while being transported on a jeep to a field hospital. Quick emergency treatment of Allied wounded has saved many lives on the Pacific, Asiatic and European battlefronts. ...