A three-degree classification for burns was developed and functioned at that time. At the same time, the problems of pathogenesis and the surgical treatment of burns were considered at the XVI and XXIV Congresses of Surgeons of the Soviet Union (1924, 1938) and the VI Congress of the Ukraine (1936). For anyone who wants to know how so many of our boys made it home despite horrific injuries, this book provides part of the answer.The Soviet Union, its allies and its opponents had no specialized medical units for patients with burn injuries in military or civilian hospitals when the WWII began. A casualty who made it to their facilities had a 99 percent chance of surviving. He tells how they endured shelling and a bombing of the hospital and how they adjusted to the people and the countries in which they worked.īy the end of their two-year tour of duty, the men and women of the 95th Evac were superbly efficient. He describes how they solved problems and learned to treat the war-wounded in the extreme heat of North Africa and during the frigid winters of the Rhineland. He tells the story of how the men and women of the 95th survived the war.
Hospital at War is the story of the 95th Evac Hospital as told by Zachary Friedenberg, a young surgeon at the time, fresh out of his internship. After the guns were silent, records show that these doctors and nurses had treated over 42,000 Americans in almost all the critical battles of the European theater: Salerno, Monetcassino, Anzio, southern France, the Battle of the Bulge, the Rhineland, and finally, the invasion into Germany. Shortly thereafter, they entered Naples, then set up shop at Anzio before moving on to become the first American hospital to penetrate Nazi-occupied Europe. First pitching their tents at Oujda, they moved eastward toward Algeria before making a D-day landing on the beaches of Salerno, Italy, on September 9, 1939. It was where the wounded first received definitive care.įormed at Camp Breckenridge, the 95th Evac arrived in Casablanca in April 1943, with seven thousand troops, thirty doctors, and forty nurses. An evacuation hospital was a forward hospital accepting patients from the battlefield. During World War II, the army established 107 evacuation hospitals to care for the wounded and sick in theaters around the world.
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