These units were attached to combat units and followed them into battle.īattlefield:Medics performed first aid and moved the wounded to the aid station, often under fire. At all points along this chain, decisions were made regarding when to treat, when to return to duty, and when to evacuate further to the rear. Wartime medical treatment occurred on muddy battlefields under fire, in tent hospitals only miles from the front, and in sterile stateside hospitals.Ī complex chain moved patients to where they could best be treated.
The hospital has participated in World War I, World War II, Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan). This article is the first in a three-part series on US Army hospitalization in World War II: The 115th Field Hospital (' Warrior Medics ') 1 is a field hospital of the United States Army formed in 1917 and perpetuated until today. In my novel On Distant Shores, the hero serves as a pharmacist in a US Army evacuation hospital and the heroine serves as a flight nurse.
Compared to the ravages of battle, her concerns were nitpicky.
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