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Former POW and U.S. Navy CMDR Robert Harper Shumaker (Captured 11 Feb 65) shares a magazine with fellow ex-POW U.S. Navy LCMDR Phillip Neal Butler (Captured 20 Apr 65) in the hospital reading lounge. CMDR Shumaker and LCMDR Butler were released by the North Vietnamese in Hanoi on 12 Feb 73. (DoD Photo)


Operation Homecoming brings POWs home

Former POW and U.S. Navy CMDR Robert Harper Shumaker (Captured 11 Feb 65) shares a magazine with fellow ex-POW U.S. Navy LCMDR Phillip Neal Butler (Captured 20 Apr 65) in the hospital reading lounge. CMDR Shumaker and LCMDR Butler were released by the North Vietnamese in Hanoi on 12 Feb 73. (DoD Photo)

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After escaping the province of Bataan just before it fell to invading Japanese forces, Lt. Col. Helen Hennessey found herself on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines. This image was taken there, where she helped take care of the sick and wounded in an underground 1,000-bed hospital.
Lt. Col. Helen Hennessey was captured as a prisoner of war in 1942 and sent to the Santo Tomas internment camp in Manila. She was one of the many nurses captured on the island of Corregidor. This is an image of many of those nurses being rescued when Santo Tomas was eventually liberated by American troops in 1945. [12 February 1945]
The Dependents’ Medical Care Act, effective since Dec. 7, 1956, enabled dependents of military personnel to be treated by civilian doctors in cases of pregnancy, serious injuries, or illnesses requiring hospitalization. The law also opened up medical facilities of all services and the U.S. Public Health Service to Air Force dependents. The Dependents’ Medical Care Act outlined operations of the program, specific exceptions, and eligibility requirements. Here, an Airman and his wife get the final okay from the family doctor on the second visit.
From the first moments of the attack until the close of the day, Hickam's small new hospital, which had opened only a few weeks before, was the focal point of activity on the base.
Hospital personnel conduct and are evaluated on triage procedures during Exercise Medical Red Flag.
In a demonstration of air evacuation during “Operation Hi-Water” in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1956, several people are shown looking over transportable equipment used in the handling of polio cases. From left to right, they are Col. R.R. Carbonetta, MC; Brig. Gen. M.S. White, an Air Force surgeon; Msgr. Jocquin Salcedo of Columbia; and Mr. Julio Silva of the Pan American Union. (Photo courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration.)
In 1954, a 50-bed hospital and its staff were airlifted from Donaldson Air Force Base, South Carolina to Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma. Fifty-four people and 36,740 pounds of medical and surgical equipment were flown 1,000 miles onboard C-119s. After the equipment was airlifted, the hospital was set up and ready for business in seven hours and 13 minutes. This marked the first use of helicopters and C-119s being used to move a hospital.
Operation Blue Bat (AFMS History Office)
Operation Blue Bat (AFMS History Office)
In the time-honored military tradition signifying assumption of command, Air Force Research Laboratory Commander Maj. Gen. Robert D. McMurry passes the 711th Human Performance Wing guidon, or unit flag, to Brig. Gen. Mark A. Koeniger. Koeniger assumed command of the wing Jun. 28, 2016, in a ceremony at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo/Michelle Gigante)
Air Force Surgeon General Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Mark Ediger addressed members of the Air Force Association during the association’s monthly breakfast event held in Arlington, Va., June 7. The general spoke about development of new medical support mission requirements and the efforts of Air Force Medicine to ensure mission success. (U.S. Air Force photo by Prerana Korpe, AFMS Public Affairs)
Air Force Surgeon General Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Mark Ediger was the featured speaker at the Air Force Association’s June breakfast. After his presentation, Gen. Ediger was presented with a token of appreciation by retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Bernard Skoch. (U.S. Air Force photo by Prerana Korpe, AFMS Public Affairs)

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