Evacuation Hospital

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

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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

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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

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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

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For the medics... back to the muddy evacuation hospital. Source

The Italian Front

Photographer Margaret Bourke-White was the first female war correspondent, fixed at the front line through most of WWII. These photographs come from her time with the U. S. army in Italy, 1944. The photographs are uncaptioned, but telling nonetheless. 

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From Above

A series of aerial photographs taken from a helicopter by Margaret Bourke-White for LIFE magazine, 1951. Many of them are of industrial or 'ordinary' views; it is such testament to her skill as a photographer that even these are incredibly striking and/or absolutely beautiful. 

Grape harvest in a vineyard near Fresno, California. Source

A freight train travelling through the El Cajon pass near San Diego, California. Source

Horseback riders on Ocean Beach, California. Source

Grain elevator with barges, Chicago. Source

New York City, with bus terminal in foreground. Source

Farm workers harvesting onions, Burbank, California. Source

The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth in the NYC harbour. Source

Smoke and smokestacks at a US steel plant, Gary, Indiana. Source

Tract housing, San Francisco. Source

The Coronado Hotel, San Diego, California. Source

A bridge crossing a river in Chicago. Source

Oil storage tanks, Houston, Texas. Source

Trains in Chicago. Source

Smoke coming from the chimneys of a paper mill, Houston, Texas. Source

The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco. Source

Water skiers and motorboats in the ocean at Long Beach, California. Source

San Jacinto monument, Houston, Texas. Source

A segment of the Whitestone bridge, New York. Source

Tourists poking out of the crown of the Statue of Liberty, NYC. Source

A grain elevator and rail yard, Chicago. Source

Grain elevator and rail yard, Chicago. Source

Snow geese flying over Back Bay, Virginia, USA. Source

Riders on the shore as waves roll in against Ocean Beach, California. Source