Dog Tags used for marking X-Ray photos
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Dog Tags used for marking X-Ray photos
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Title: Soldiers' Identification Tags Mark X-Ray Photos
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SWIFT, skilled treatment of the wounds
soldiers sustain in battle is one of the
Army Medical Corps’ chief duties. To this
end, X-ray machines, operating rooms, and
laboratories, literally set up in tents near
the firing line, become the emergency hos-
pitals of Army doctors to whom time lost
may mean soldiers’ lives. The photographs
at the left, made in tents in the field, illus-
trate an X-ray machine in use and a major
operation being performed within such
tents, Above, an actual X-ray made of a
soldier's shoulder in the field shows the in-
genious use of his own identification tag to
record on the plate the patient's name. Of
additional help to the doctor would be the
symbols indicating the soldier's blood type,
as now included on such tags (P.S.M. Feb.
*42, p. 72). Because all lettering on the tags
is stamped, the letters consist of more
thinly spread-out metal which the pene-
trating X rays imprint onthe film as darker
areas, thus making them legible. Medical
Corps detachments carry the wounded from
the battlefield to the first-aid stations, where
battalion medical officers perform the emer-
gency work. Ambulance collecting stations
are the next goal, from which the wounded
are sped to base hospitals.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1942-04
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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111
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google Digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Roberto Meneghetti
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 140, n. 4, 1942
U.S. soldiers "tagged" for blood transfusion
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