Corporal Alejandro Aquino, x-ray technician, 8076th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, taking an x-ray of a soldier's arm for possible fracture

Title:
Corporal Alejandro Aquino, x-ray technician, 8076th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, taking an x-ray of a soldier's arm for possible fracture
Creator:
United States. Army
Date:
[9 July 1951]
Description:
Courtesy of National Museum of Health and Medicine: "The X-ray machine, Type B, Serial Number 10638, Tube Number 114394, was made by the Picker X-ray Corporation, Waite Manufacturing Division, Cleveland, OH. The Army X-ray table unit, Style Number 979935, Serial Number 72276, was made by Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Long Island City, NY.". The auxiliary surgical hospitals (later called Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals) were conceived and developed by DeBakey and the Surgical Consultants in the first years of World War II. They greatly improved battlefield injury survival rates by getting surgical care closer to the front lines. Photos like this, taken during the Korean war (1950-1953), provide a closer look at the operations of the surgical units, including the addition of helicopters for transporting the wounded.
Original Repository:
National Museum of Health and Medicine. Otis Historical Archives. Army Signal Corps Photographs
Rights:
Courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine.
Genre:
Photographic prints
Subject:
Korean War, Wounds and Injuries, and Hospitals, Military
Format:
Still Image
Extent:
1 pages
Legacy Source Citation:
Original Repository. National Museum of Health and Medicine. Otis Historical Archives. Army Signal Corps Photographs. 12809. Free Text. OHA Collection 343
Legacy ID:
FJBBSN
NLM ID:
101743405X296
Profiles Collection:
The Michael E. DeBakey Papers
Shareable Link:
https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101743405X296
Story Section:
From Tulane School of Medicine to the U.S. Army, 1928-1946