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Medics & Medical Treatment
Medics were paid 10 dollars less per month than the men they struggled to save. Many were conscientious objectors, unwilling to take lives but willing to risk their own lives to save others. Daniel Inouye called the corpsmen the real heroes of the war: "Whenever a man gets injured, he very, very seldom calls out for his sweetheart or his mother. First thing he call out is 'Medic!' And whenever that word is heard, the medic rushes over, just dodging bullets. That takes guts."
Medics were paid 10 dollars less per month than the men they struggled to save. Many were conscientious objectors, unwilling to take lives but willing to risk their own lives to save others. Daniel Inouye called the corpsmen the real heroes of the war: "Whenever a man gets injured, he very, very seldom calls out for his sweetheart or his mother. First thing he call out is 'Medic!' And whenever that word is heard, the medic rushes over, just dodging bullets. That takes guts."
61 records found for “Medics & Medical Treatment” |
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American soldiers clean up a hospital shelled by the Germans. Anzio Area, Italy. April 10, 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-189163)
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Wounded American soldiers aboard an LCT are ferried to a hospital ship off Anzio, Italy. January 31, 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-278921)
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Soldiers build a makeshift grave for a comrade killed during the fighting in Italy. March 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-188118)
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Hospital corpsmen identify and fingerprint fallen Marines on Okinawa. 1945
Source: National Archives (127-N-140833)
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In a box car at Dachau concentration camp, American Medical Corpsmen examine the dead bodies of prisoners. At other camps, medic Ray Leopold witnesses horrors he had trouble believing.
Source: National Archives (208-AA-129J-57)
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Thanks to African-American blood, Daniel Inouye survived his wounds.
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Injured soldiers at a makeshift hospital near the beachhead at Anzio, Italy. February 22, 1944.
Source: National Archives (208-AA-51G-2)
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Portrait of Lt. Emily Lewis in her nursing uniform. She served as a flight nurse and helped evacuate wounded after D-Day.
Source: Emily Lewis
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Emily Lewis was born in Paducah, Kentucky on April 5th, 1920, and grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1924. She graduated from nursing school in 1941 and after Pearl Harbor, enlisted in the armed forces. She was called to duty in June of 1942, and was initially sent to . . .
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Flight nurse Emily Lewis tends to a wounded flier. December, 1944.
Source: Emily Lewis
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Lt. Emily Lewis and two colleagues prepare to travel by jeep in Normandy. 1944. She served as a flight nurse and helped evacuate wounded after D-Day.
Source: Emily Lewis
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Wounded soldiers lie on cots at an evacuation hospital near Epinal, France. November 30, 1944. Paul Fussell was evacuated to Epinal after his wound.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-196644)
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A C-47 transports wounded Americans across the English Channel.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-293239)
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Two medics attend to the body of a dead American soldier in Schevenhutte, Germany. December 22, 1944.
Source: National Archives (WC-1341)
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Marines prepare to evacuate a wounded soldier from the front lines on Guadalcanal. January 10, 1943.
Source: National Archives (127-N-53450)
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Medics work on a soldier wounded during the fighting in the Hurtgen Forest. November 18, 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-198841)
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A wounded soldier of the Fifth Army, the force that liberated Rome, receives a gift from an Italian boy. June 4, 1944
Source: National Archives (111-SC-190656)
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A Marine receives medical attention for wounds caused by a mortar burst on Iwo Jima. February 20, 1945.
Source: National Archives (127-GW-331-110154)
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Men of the 3042nd Graves Registration Camp collect Allied and enemy dead just outside snow-covered Bastogne, Belgium. January 16, 1945.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-226807)
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An army doctor performs surgery on sniper victim in a makeshift hospital. Bouganville. December 13, 1943.
Source: National Archives (WC-0918)
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