Call to Duty: Outagamie County in World War II

Combat Medic

Bradley would have carried a bag like this into combat. The bag held medical supplies such as bandages, adhesives, safety pins, tweezers, clamps, sulfa powder, and morphine syringes. Japanese troops targeted medics so that injured Marines would die without medical help.

 

 

 

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Combat medic bag, circa 1945
Combat medic bag, circa 1945

Loan from the Military Veterans Museum, Inc.

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