48 VIETNAM
Disease specialists
examine blood samples
to find the local strain
of malaria that posed
a threat to American
forces in Southeast Asia.A wounded Marine
undergoes surgery in
November 1967 at a medical
suite aboard USS Tripoli,
a helicopter assault ship
in the Gulf of Tonkin.Cpl. Bernice Scott
of the Army Nurse
Corps joins the medical
team during an
operation at the 2nd
Surgical Hospital in
Lai Khe, a town north
of Saigon, in 1969.PHOTOCREDITTOP:^ GETTY^IMAGES;^ BOTTOM^ LEFT:^ CHARLESBONNAY/THE^ LIFEIMAGESCOLLECTION/GETTY^ IMAGES;^ RIGHT:^ BETTMANN/GETTY^ IMAGES