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C-141 Evac

Members of the 2nd Aeromedical Evacuation Airlift Squadron from Rhein-Main Air Base, load patients, who were victims of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, onto a C-141B Starlifter aircraft after an overnight stay at the Army Regional Medical Center at Landstuhl by Tech. Sgt. Gary Tomoyasu. (Courtesy of DOD)
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Desert Medic 1991

Lt. Larry Franklin, center, a nurse with the 146th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, California Air National Guard, takes steps to prevent an injured Iraqi prisoner of war from going into shock as attending medical technicians observe during Operation Desert Storm. 1991 DF-ST-92-07693 (Courtesy of Defense Imagery)
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Veterinary Chimp Astronaut 1953

Brig. Gen. Wayne O. Kester, first chief of the Air Force Veterinary Corps, examines a monkey used in biomedical experiments aboard the Aerobee rocket. The AF Veterinary Corps was abolished in 1980. Washington, D.C., March 1953. (Courtesy of DOD)
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Aerobic Fitness Research 1968

Dr. Kenneth Cooper conducts fitness research in 1968. (Courtesy of USAF)
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Dental Sick Call

Morning sick call in a 7th Fighter Command ambulance on Iwo Jima during World War II. The Medic is Cpl Readford B. Williams of Alabama City, AL; W/O Herman J. Diesel is the man being treated, from Philadelphia, PA. In left background is Cpl Willard S. Bennett of Somerville, MA. At extreme right (wearing glasses) is Cpl Nolan Patterson of Wichita, KS.
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The Cadillac of medevac

The C-9A, which debuted in 1968, prepares for a mission at Scott Air Force Base, Ill. The Aircraft was the U.S. Air Force’s designated aeromedical evacuation aircraft that was capable of transporting more patients than previous aircraft. It was able to carry up to 40 patients, either litter or ambulatory, and was fitted with hydraulic folding ramps to easily move litter patients on and off the aircraft. (U.S. Air force photo)
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Col. (Dr.) Vance H. Marchbanks Jr.

The 332nd Fighter Group Medical Detachment in 1944. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Col. (Dr.) Vance H. Marchbanks Jr.

Maj. (Dr.) Vance H. Marchbanks Jr. interviewing 1st Lt. Felix J. Kirkpatrick. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Col. (Dr.) Vance H. Marchbanks Jr.

Maj. (Dr.) Vance H. Marchbanks Jr. in Italy, 1944. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Air Force Medicine during the Vietnam War

A hovering 37th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron HH-53 helicopter lowers a U.S. Air Force pararescueman during a rescue mission in Southeast Asia, June 1970. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Air Force medical staff celebrates advances in ECMO

Dr. Donald Null, Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation staff, demonstrates the use of a first-generation ECMO cart. Today, ECMO carts are considered third-generation and are capable of serving adults with more modern and advanced equipment. (Courtesy photo)
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The evolution of aeromedical evacuation capabilities help deployed medicine take flight

A U.S. casualty of the Korean War arrives in Japan aboard a U.S. Air Force C-47, July 1950. The U.S. Air Force Military Air Transport System took over moving patients. These flights were staffed by trained Air Force AE crews to safely transport casualties. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Air Force Medicine in the Korean War

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)
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First Chief of the Nurse Corps

A U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps flight nurse dresses a patient’s wound during an aeromedical evacuation flight from Korea to Japan, May 1951. (Courtesy photo)
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Air Force Medicine in the Korean War

U.S. Airmen load American and Allied casualties onto a U.S. Air Force C-54D at Taegu, Korea, 1951. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Korean War

Airmen carry litter patients up truck ramps and into transport aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Korean War

C-47s carried casualties from forward airstrips to air bases further south. These patients are being evacuated from the front near Hagaru-ri in late 1950 during the Chosin retreat. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Air Force Medicine in the Korean War

The U.S. Air Force C-54 and the U.S. Air Force H-5 await their next aeromedical evacuation mission during the Korean War. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Air Force Medicine in the Korean War

A U.S. Air Force H-5 returns with a patient during the Korean War. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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1st Lt. Suella Bernard

The CG-4A glider with 1st Lt. Suella Bernard in the right-hand seat of the cockpit just as the glider is being snatched by a C-47. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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