The LAKESIDE UNIT, WORLD WAR I, formally designated U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 4, was the first contingent of the American expeditionary forces to be transported to Europe after the U.S. entry into ...

In the decade before the war, American military action consisted of Native American skirmishes and the few wounded were treated at the various forts in small infirmaries. In cities, hospitals were ...

When World War I broke out in 1914, the British military could count on 278 hospital beds in the whole of Malta. But the strategic Gallipoli debacle in the summer of 1915 instantly showed up the ...

A festive ward at Camp Hospital №33, in Brest, Finistere, France, December 1918. Courtesy of the Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage. As a German plane buzzed overhead ...

For decades, military doctors faced a critical challenge: What's the best way to safely and effectively deliver oxygen to patients in remote combat zones, rural hospitals or disaster-stricken areas?