Keywords: monochrome Lot-9432-8: 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: Lieutenant Colonel Jack J. Schwartz, USA, pictured outside of the crude hospital he headed. In one night and day, Schwartz and his staff handled 420 major and minor operations. Schwartz was a prisoner of war. Office of War Information Photograph, 9-15 April 1942. Original photograph is small. (2015/12/18). Lot-9432-8: 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: Lieutenant Colonel Jack J. Schwartz, USA, pictured outside of the crude hospital he headed. In one night and day, Schwartz and his staff handled 420 major and minor operations. Schwartz was a prisoner of war. Office of War Information Photograph, 9-15 April 1942. Original photograph is small. (2015/12/18). |