The Snapshots in Time Collection
Gallery: Mash Unit
Frontline U.S. Army medicine is documented here in canvas operating tents, crowded receiving wards, and muddy ambulance rows, spanning Seventh Army field hospitals of 1943-1945 and Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals of the Korean War era. Surgeons at work, plasma transfusions, and litter bearers loading a wounded soldier trace the evacuation chain that carried casualties from the battlefield to lifesaving care.
Field Hospital Personnel Administering Plasma Transfusion to Wounded Soldier
Surgical Team Performing Operation in Field Hospital Operating Area
Interior View of Field Hospital Operating Tent with Surgical Table and Equipment
Wounded Soldiers Awaiting Treatment in Field Hospital Receiving Tent
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Ambulance Row at a Muddy 7th Field Hospital Encampment
Interior of a U.S. Seventh Army Field Hospital Tent Ward, WWII Era (circa 1943-1945)