This series consists of reports, correspondence, and photographs relating to the history of medical departments in the U.S. Army Air Force. Included are medical activity and history reports for the Technical Air Squadron, Ordnance Aviation Battalion, Engineer Aviation Battalion, Air Disarmament Wings, Air Depot Groups, Air Corps, Medical Depot and Veterinary Aviation Section. The reports are written in narrative form to the Surgeon General and outline the activities, history and evolution of the medical departments. Included are photographs of medical equipment, dental equipment, German medical equipment and supplies, hospitals, patients, and medical staff.
This series includes photographs of a captured German mobile low pressure chamber and aero-medical intelligence reports on experiments Germans were conducting on prisoners. Also included are notes from Major Reuben Berman and Lieutenant Colonel J. F. Tilden relating to their trip to the Dachau concentration camp on May 27, 1945 for the purpose of investigating German research into aviation medicine. Included is a description of the camp, description of methods of torture and devices for murder, records relating to an investigation of aero-medical experiments conducted by Germans on prisoners at Dachau, and photographs of the camp. These records were maintained by the Office of the Chief Surgeon.
