Keywords: Lot-9432-11: Battle of Bataan, 7 January – 9 April 1942. How Tireless U.S.-Filipino Medical Workers Cared for the Wounded of Bataan. The heroism of Bataan was not confined to the front lines. Behind, but not far from the scenes of battle, a little band of men and women – some of them members of the U.S. Medical Corps, some of them Red Cross workers – ministered to the wounded and carried on a continuing fight against fatigue, disease and death. Shown: Beds in this Bataan jungle clearing made it a “hospital ward.” Office of War Information Photograph, 9-15 April 1942. Original photograph is small. (2015/12/18). Lot-9432-11: Battle of Bataan, 7 January – 9 April 1942. How Tireless U.S.-Filipino Medical Workers Cared for the Wounded of Bataan. The heroism of Bataan was not confined to the front lines. Behind, but not far from the scenes of battle, a little band of men and women – some of them members of the U.S. Medical Corps, some of them Red Cross workers – ministered to the wounded and carried on a continuing fight against fatigue, disease and death. Shown: Beds in this Bataan jungle clearing made it a “hospital ward.” Office of War Information Photograph, 9-15 April 1942. Original photograph is small. (2015/12/18). |