Caring For A Casualty: While the battles of Khe Sanh, Vietnam, go on, a steady flow of wounded are rushed into the underground hospital bunker for emergency treatment sufficient until removal to a rear area hospital, March 8th, 1968. Though more than 1,000 men have been patched up and evacuated, the quarters are continually crowded, causing stretchers to be slung, four high, from wall pegs and rope attached to the ceiling. A wounded soldier, receiving transfusions, is tended to by a flak-jacketed corpsman in the hospital bunker of Khe Sanh | Harvard Art Museums | KenAI
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Caring For A Casualty: While the battles of Khe Sanh, Vietnam, go on, a steady flow of wounded are rushed into the underground hospital bunker for emergency treatment sufficient until removal to a rear area hospital, March 8th, 1968. Though more than 1,000 men have been patched up and evacuated, the quarters are continually crowded, causing stretchers to be slung, four high, from wall pegs and rope attached to the ceiling. A wounded soldier, receiving transfusions, is tended to by a flak-jacketed corpsman in the hospital bunker of Khe Sanh
1968
Artists
John T. WheelerArtist
Classification
Photographs
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Medium
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print with applied pigment
Culture
American
Century
20th century
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Department
Department of Photographs
Dimensions
21.3 × 16.8 cm (8 3/8 × 6 5/8 in.)
Provenance
Doug and Joan Hansen, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2023.