Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Historical Films. 1914 - 1936. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT-BASE HOSPITALS IN THE INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED ZONES, 1918-1919

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Historical Films. 1914 - 1936. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT-BASE HOSPITALS IN THE INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED ZONES, 1918-1919

1936

Wounded receive first aid at Dijon. 6th Engrs. unload lumber and survey ground for a hospital. Patients are wheeled from the Rimaucourt hospital and put aboard trains. Shows hospitals at Sommedieue and Toul. 5th Marines guard a Chaumont hospital. A Red Cross worker comforts patients in Paris. French doctors are decorated. A wedding party leaves the Hotel de Ville in Chaumont. Sec. of War Baker and Gen. Bliss visit patients at Vittel and Le Bourget.

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