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Infantry Combat Medics in Europe, 1944–45

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This chapter examines the challenges related to general, daily, combat-related health care needs apart from wounds. Cold weather, illness, disease, and combat exhaustion generated significant problems for the combat medics. They treated these and other ailments at a daily sick call for their unit even as the fighting continued. And while American troops always remained the primary focus, medics at times assisted both German combatants and civilians. Combat medics uniquely and effectively met an unexpected, broad spectrum of health care needs.

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Shilcutt, T. (2013). Day-to-Day Health. In: Infantry Combat Medics in Europe, 1944–45. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137347695_6

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