AMEDD Medical Museum Foundation

Fort Sam Houston, TX

Medical Corps - Established 1775

 

 
 
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LTC Jonathan Letterman, Civil War medical officer and Medical Director for the Army of the Potomac. He pioneered a plan for speedy evacuation of the wounded from the battlefield through creation of an ambulance corps, development of echeloned medical care involving evacuation of patients to the appropriate type of hospital, and initiation of an effective supply system for the Army of the Potomac.
Medical officer examines captured German medicines, France, c. 1918.
Medical officer and combat medics treating a casualty at an aid station on the beach at Normandy, D-Day 1944. Wounded soldier is being administered blood plasma.
Medical officer with 2 enlisted medics administers a transfusion to a Chinese infantryman. Tengchun, China, 1944.
Surgeon on right heads team about to operate on a patient at the 44th MASH, Korea, 19 January 1954.
Radiology residents meet with their teaching chief at an Army Medical Center, c. 1968.
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