Medical care

Child receiving an immunization shot.

Luncheon at the National Convention of Federal Hospital Executives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at which President Harry S. Truman spoke. Original is oversize.

Stereograph of bringing in wounded on French front after the Battle Ablain St. Nazaire, showing stretcher bearers and aid station. Donor; George J. Paulson to HST 3-3-66

Photo of many copies of an official report on Tuberculosis stacked on a table and nearby cabinets. A poster which can be seen more clearly in photo 2009-2184 illustrates what is being done in Poland to fight the disease.

Wounded being taken care of at the first dressing station back of the lines. 35th Division, Cheppy, Meuse, Varennes, France, Sept. 29, 1918. From: Lillian R. Craig, Scotland County Public Library, Memphis, Missouri.

Wounded men of the 25th Infantry Division receive emergency treatment before evacuation to rear areas during the Korean War.

Clarence R. Decker, Assistant Director, Mutual Security Agency and Chief of the Far East Division, on tour in Vietnam, is photographed with a group of medical personnel treating a patient for an eye problem.

Lieutenant E. Peterson holding the projectile he had just removed from a marine's brain. Aboard the U.S.S. Pickaway, Inchon, Korea.

From left to right: Captain Ray S. White, Air Force, Austin, Texas, P-51 Fighter Pilot, Captain Robert Wayne's wing man. First Lieutenant Paul VanBoven, Air Force, San Mateo, California. Pilot of helicopter that rescued Captain Wayne. Corporal John Fuentz, Para-Medic. Helicopter crew man who pulled Captain Wayne into the helicopter.

Medics carry back wounded of the 5th RCT, hit in attack on Chuk, Chon Mountain in the Masan area during the Korean War.