Military Medicine Display

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This segment of the Museum is dedicated to artifacts which were used in the U.S. and German Armed Forces Medicine. Prominent artifacts (to the left) include a Picker shock-proof portable x-ray assembly (Circa 1941). Approximately 15,000 of these x-ray devices were manufactured for the U.S. military used during WWII, the Korean and Vietnam Wars. This is Serial #1, the prototype for these devices. In the foreground is a portable surgical table designed for a M.A.S.H. unit along with military manuals, instruments, and documentation from hospital ships. In the background are framed photos from the Buckingham Hospital and Buckingham Army Air Field (1942-1945) that provided a training base for nearly 30,000 Army Air Corps personnel training for high altitude B-17 bomber missions over Europe. There is also a 1960s era portable single channel ECG machine to the left of a portable upright surgical chair used for oral and nasal procedures where the patient was seated upright.

Supplemental file includes a framed front page of The Montgomery newspaper publication.