Female nurses of the 65th General Hospital at a formal going-away party held at the Hope Valley Country Club in Durham, N.C.. The party was held on July 15, 1942, just twelve days after receiving orders to report to Ft. Bragg, N.C. for training. (Back...
After serving as an attendant at Duke Hospital and Highland Hospital, John Reibel took special training in physical therapy at Duke, and worked in the physical-therapy clinic. On October 27, 1942, Civilian Public Service (C.P.S.) Camp No. 61 was...
An African-American worker opens the rear end of the ambulance. A guard stands in the emergency room doorway. The original emergency room unloading platform could only accommodate one ambulance.
Doctors and a nurse prepare a cast on a patient’s arm in the plaster room of the Orthopaedic Clinic. (Left to right) Dr. Warner Wells (A.B., Duke, 1934 and M.D., Duke, 1938; house staff and associate in Surgery from 1938 to 1945), Dr. Laszlo Ormandy...
Bridgers graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1936. He was part of the Duke Hospital house staff from 1936 to 1940. In the early 1940s, Bridgers served with the 65th General Hospital as neurosurgeon for the unit. He traveled to London...