Navy Medical Art of the Abbott Collection
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Helping Wounded
Treating a Marine casualty where he fell on the bloody beach at Tarawa, Navy hospital corpsmen bandage his wound while another corpsman opens a bottle of plasma. |
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Dentist of Bougainville
In some cases of serious wounds, blood plasma is injected in a continuous flow. Here a Marine casualty receives this treatment as he is borne back through a trail from the front lines in the Bougainville jungle. |
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Corpsman Works by Night
Casualties must move with the same care as combatants when fighting the Japanese. In this painting depicting a grim scene at the Bougainville front, a wounded Marine is kept warm by his buddy while hospital corpsmen creep noiselessly down into the foxhole to remove the casualty to the rear lines for treatment. |
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Aid Station
Heavy was the coast at Tarawa. Compensating for the blood spilled by this casualty, life-giving plasma is injected into his veins where he fell on the historic beach in the Gilberts. |
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Hauling the Sling Gently Over the Rail
Last stage of the arduous trip back from the front lines is reached for this casualty, being hoisted abroad a transport. Soon he will be relaxing on a soft bunk, with skilled medical care and good food in prospect during the voyage to a base hospital. |
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Transport Wounded
Wounded in a Pacific battle, these American servicemen are placed aboard a giant transport plane for the speedy flight to a base hospital. There their wounds will be given expert attention, necessary operations will be performed, and, where needed, physical or occupational therapy applied to fit them for a return to action or civilian life. |
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SAY A-A-A-A-H
Infections can disable a man as quickly as enemy bullets, so a frequent check is made of American fighting men. This Marine has his throat examined by a Navy hospital corpsman to the usual sound elicited by: "Say a-a-a-h!" |
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First Aid
This Marine had to be moved to get at his wound. |
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