Army Medical Museum

Wow, check this out... these old pictures are amazing. Some are a little graphic, so in case you're squeamish I thought I'd mention.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/medarchives.html

From otisarchives1 Flickr account:

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From their Tuesday blog post:

Most of these photographs were never described in any database (although there is a set of index cards that fills a wall) and we're discovering and seeing them for the first time too. There are so many pictures that no one of us is seeing all of them - the contractor's scanning team working on this has 7 people just getting the pictures catalogued to be scanned. And there's at least 2000 boxes left to go.

2,000 boxes!!!! WOW.

I hope they're able to continue posting the old photos, it tells alot about what the world must have been like back then. We must never forget the trials and hardships people overcame in the past.

Here are a few of the images that struck me: