medical

November 14, 1944 Control Malariologist D. D. Sorrentino using blood smear kit of his own design on a Chinese soldier in China during WWII. Photo by Pvt. Thomas Melvin.

S/Sgt. Ira M. Brown, Corning, Iowa, receives Purple Heart from Col. D. L. Clark, Standing bedside are Lt. Col. A. A. Leonidoff, Col. J. C. Kennedy, and Lt. Col. John Groupman. According to report in his hometown paper, The Adams County Free Press (Iowa), on March 15, 1945, S/Sgt. Brown had been wounded in battle, and had been a gunner...

Lt. James C. Spaulding and T/Sgt Silvio C. Merlin pose in front of the "Local Issue" tent (likely a medical supply tent) in India.

Ambulance backs up to plane preparatory to loading patient for quick trip to a base hospital of Major General C. L. Chennault’s Fourteenth Air Force in China. Watching the operation is Co-pilot David Craft of Reading, Pa., and Crew Chief Roy J. Duka, Detroit, Mich. Lt. Craft is seated in the plane and Corporal Duka is standing at the ambulance...

Americans in the CBI getting dental work done.

Chinese and American VIPs visit injured men in a hospital in the CBI.

Medical care somewhere in the CBI. Doc Stultz and G. K. Sample on the job--dentistry.

A crowd of servicemen in robes and in uniforms sit around a table playing bingo, with three Chinese nurses looking on in curiosity. A single female American also looks on.

A visit for some dentistry in China during WWII.

Chinese infirmary staff with American soldiers. Image taken in front of a Chinese infirmary in a compound.