These collection items come from the World War I and II era and discuss the progress made in the medical field in multiple military branches.
A U.S. Army Medical Base in World War I France: Life and Care at Bazoilles Hospital Center, 1918-1919 by Peter Wever (2019)
Depicts the medical care US soldiers in WWI received at Bazoilles as well as the daily life of the patients and personnel there.
African American Doctors of World War I: The Lives of 104 Volunteers by W. Douglas Fisher and Joann H. Buckley (2015)
Covers the 104 African American doctors who joined to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd black combat units.
Medical Department, United States Army Preventative Medicine in World War II, Vol. II-V by: Col. John Boyd Coates, Ebbe Curties Hoff, Phebe M. Hoff, Major Gen. S.B. Hays, and Gen. Leonard D. Heaton (1955-1960)
Provides some secondary information related to medicine in WWII and can be used in conjunction with the other texts in this collection that we have chosen from the same time period and topic.
Medical Department, United States Army. Organization and Administration in World War II by: Blanche B. Armfield (1963)
Discusses Army’s involvement in medicine during this war.
No Time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II by: Diane Burke Fessler (1996)
This text complies over a hundred oral histories of nurses during WWII and provides a woman’s perspective to the time.
Medical History Collection 