Striking photographs of an evacuation hospital on the front lines, where wounded soldiers are treated right off the battlefield. Anzio, Italy, 1944, by Margaret Bourke-White.
Medics unload wounded from ambulances at the evacuation hospital, in the mud. Source
Surgeons work on shrapnel causalities. Source
A medic and nurses giving blood plasma to a critically injured patient. Source
Medics x-raying patients for shrapnel wounds and broken bones. Source
A medic carries an x-ray through the mud. Source
Medics attend a healthy soldier donating a bottle of blood. Source
Medics put freshly drawn blood into the ice box. Source
A [cute!] convalescent patient picks his way through the mud with a letter from home. Source
Two nurses walk through the mud from their bathroom tent. Source
Army doctors and nurse finishing an operation to remove a piece of shrapnel from a patient's head. Source
Medics loading a wounded man into an ambulance. Source
An army surgeon wipes the lips of a wounded soldier receiving a blood transfusion. Source
Surgeons perform chest operation on a wounded soldier. Source
A strained smile from the surgeon. Source
Medics and drivers with ambulances beside a hospital train, used to bring wounded from the evacuation hospitals to larger ones away from the front line. The station has been bombed out. Source
Wounded soldiers being cared for on the hospital train. Source
For the medics... back to the muddy evacuation hospital. Source
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