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Surgical Team, Stripped to the Waist
- Creator
- Cobb, John Candler, II, 1919-2016
- Creation Date
- 1943/03
- Who
- WWII driver
- When
- WWII
- Where
- North Africa
- license
Courtesy of the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs (AFS Archives.) Contact archives@afs.org for information regarding the rights and reproduction policies of this specific item.
Photo: John C. Cobb, courtesy AFS Archives, NY.
In the heat of the midday African Sun, the surgical teams operated stripped to the waist and left the operating theater tent door wide open to get whatever breath of wind there might be.
They had been operating day and night because they had so many seriously wounded patients, both British and German. In this photo, the surgeon is searching for a bit of shrapnel in a soldier’s groin.
Location: 12th LFA [Light Field Ambulances], near El Hamma, Tunisia.