Fig. 3A–B.

(A) The 8208th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital was one of the MASH units created to provide care within a few miles of the front line during the Korean War. (Courtesy of Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC.) (B) Mortality from all wounds decreased in Korea owing to more rapid transport via helicopter to operating rooms such as the one staffed by physicians at the 8055th MASH. (Courtesy of Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC.)