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U.S. Airmen move a wounded patient during the Korean War. Speedy evacuation by air cut the casualty death rate by half since World War II. (U.S. Air Force photo) Air Force Medicine in the Korean War
The Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) became independent from the U.S. Army in 1949, just four years after the end of World War II. The Korean War, just a year later, was the first opportunity for the new medical arm of the U.S. Air Force to demonstrate its value in a wartime situation. Many of the lessons learned and process developed in that conflict are still vital to the AFMS mission today.
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