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An image of early medical care, a physician bandaging a soldier’s foot. Illustration by Don Troiani, courtesy National Park Service. Welcome to issue #52 of the AMEDD Historian Newsletter! In this edition we focus on each of the corps of the Army Medical Department. There are six Congressionallydesignated AMEDD corps: Medical, Medical Service, Medical Specialist,…

Battalion Aid Station World War II, painting by Lou Breslow MED 0048 This painting shows two wounded in the field with a medic hovering over one wounded. Another medic is helping another wounded to a Jeep in the background. Also used in the AMEDD Museum’s temporary exhibit, “Under the Red Cross”.

Dr. Ralph Hayward Simmons, from Massachusetts, graduated from Tufts Medical College in 1913. He entered the Army Medical Corps as a reserve officer in 1917 and attended medical officers training at Camp Benjamin Harrison in June 1917. He entered the Army Medical Corps with the rank of LT. He was promoted to CPT during WWI…

28th CSH Soldier Invents Life-Saving Device By Sgt. Mark Bell, 19 NOV 2003 Baghdad, Iraq – What do cardboard, plastic pipe, tape and a hair dryer have in common? Probably nothing, but add Staff Sgt. Adam R. Irby into the equation and you get an effective life-saving device proven in combat situations. As the 25-year-old…