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The Medical Department : Medical Service in the European Theater of Operations / by Graham A. Cosmas and Albert E. Cowdrey.

by Cosmas, Graham A.

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Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army : For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, United States Government Publishing Office, 1992.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care -- United States.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.

CMH pub ; 10-23.

United States Army in World War II. Technical services.

xx, 652 pages, 2 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.

Describes how the military medical system organized, trained, and deployed; how hospitals were built and supplies assembled and moved forward; and how casualties were treated and evacuated from the field of battle. The volume supports the proposition that the experience of medical personnel in war directly stimulates advances in medical science. The principles of medical organization remain of vital importance, the exploits of the doctors, corpsmen, and medical support units providing a model for the planning and organization of medical support in today's Army.

Society for History in the Federal Government Henry Adams Prize, 1993.

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