War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding

right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its

size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.

Welcome to Key Battles of American History,

a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.

Here is your host, James Early.

Thank you. host, James Early. Hello and welcome to another special episode of Key Battles of American History.

This is your host, James Early, as always.

And this is the third in a series of many episodes that have been commissioned by members

of Early's Raiders.

This week's episode was commissioned by Major Anna Concepcion Castro, and it is on medical

care in World War II.

Anna is herself a medical doctor, so it's not surprising that she is interested in this

topic. Now, in this topic.

Now, in this topic, I'm going to limit it because, obviously, if you were going to talk about

medical care in every army of every country, by every branch of the service, you would be here

forever. This would be a multi-part series. So I'm going to mainly focus on the U.S. Army. I'll talk a little about the Navy

and the Marines, but mainly the Army and the Army Air Corps, which of course was part of the Army,

Army Air Forces later. And we'll talk about medics and corpsmen primarily. As we're going to see,

medics are what the army called their enlisted people

who had the job of treating wounds and helping heal people. In the Navy, they were called corpsmen,

and the Navy corpsmen also serviced the Marine Corps. So without any further ado, let's get going.

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