Where can i find information all about Combat Medics during the World War II era?

Im doing a project in comparison to Combat Medics in todays world, and back then during the World War II era. Where could i find information that is reliable all about medics during WW2?Where can i find information all about Combat Medics during the World War II era?The Local Library is the best, they have all of the papers and books, you need.And everything is true.Good Luck!!Where can i find information all about Combat Medics during the World War II era?That is like comparing the Wright Borthers air plane to a NASA shuttle craft.



WW2 field medical care was primative, compared to today.



The WW2 medic had a 4 week training course, and much of it was taken up with useless information, that nothing to do with combat wounds or injuries. Learning to make a bed with hospital corners was a total waste of time, but it was a big part of the training course.



Here is a short list of what the WW2 medic had to work with.



Pressure dressings with a 4 by 4 inch pad, for large wounds. Triangular bandages, to be used as slings, and to hold dressings in place. Iodine, as a surface cleaner for burns or wounds. Sulpha powder, to dust into wounds, as a anti biotic. Whole blood as a transfusion to correct shock. Water. and aspirin.



Here is a list of what they DIDN'T have to use then.



No IV solutions, no CPR, no neck or spinal controls, no analgesic drugs, no cardiac drugs, no medevac flights, no body armour, no advanced cardiac training, no anatomy knowledge, no ability to treat sucking chest wounds, no burn packs, no intubation, no ability to diagnose shock and coma.



The WW 2 medic did the best he could, with very limited equipment, with very little proper medical training, and a complete lack of any trauma equipment. If a wounded man survived to arrive at a main US medical treatment facility, he had a 50 /50 chance of living, if he was seriously wounded, in WW2.





To day that man has a 80 to 90 percent chance of survival, mainly due to the much better training and equipment, available at the platoon level. Of course, not very one will live, and that is still a fact that has to be dealt with.



Jim b.