| (National Museum of Health and Medicine, AFIP) Medical evacuation route for the Kokoda Campaign, September 1942. (Ioribaiwa to Kokoda) |  |
| (National Museum of Health and Medicine, AFIP) Medical evacuation route for the Kokoda Campaign, September 1942. (Kokoda to Giruwa) |  |
| (National Museum of Health and Medicine, AFIP) Diagram showing division of casualty transportation duties between 1st Field Hospital and 67th Line of Communication Hospital, October 1942. |  |
| (National Museum of Health and Medicine, AFIP) Site plan of the 67th Line of Communication Hospital, No. 2 Subsection, Giruwa, New Guinea, October 1942. |  |
| (National Museum of Health and Medicine, AFIP) Plan for taking casualties from 67th line of Communication Hospital to location to board hospital ships to Rabaul. |  |
| M-177 00208 (National Museum of Health and Medicine, AFIP) Blood transfusion set used by the Imperial Japanese Army. |  |
| M-660 00117 (National Museum of Health and Medicine, AFIP) Injectable Novocaine used by Japanese surgeons for minor procedures. |  |
| M-151 00351 (National Museum of Health and Medicine, AFIP) This field surgical set is typical of the general surgery kits issued to the army hospitals. While it appears that the instruments in these sets were very generally grouped according to region of the body to be operated on, they don't appear to be related to specific procedures. |  |
| M-151 00327 (National Museum of Health and Medicine, AFIP) 'Blood Vein Operation Equipment' was intended for suturing damaged blood vessels, a procedure the US Army attempted only in hospitals on the continental United States. |  |
| M-019 00121 (National Museum of Health and Medicine, AFIP) This otolaryngology kit, labelled 'Ear Nose and Throat Equipment', includes instruments for removing polyps, such as tonsillotomes, a nasal and aural snares. |  |
| M-129 00109 (National Museum of Health and Medicine, AFIP) 'Fracture Operation Apparatus' was used by the Japanese a Line of Communication Hospital for the internal fixation of gunshot fractures by assembling bone fragments with gold plated bone plates and screws. The kit is remarkable in its degree of specialisation for, at least according to American experience during the Second World War, it was a comparatively rare procedure due to its complexity. |  |
| M-129 00109 (National Museum of Health and Medicine, AFIP) Top trays of the fracture operating kit showing gold plated screws and bone plates. |  |
| M-129 00109 (National Museum of Health and Medicine, AFIP) Lower tray of the fracture operating kit showing instruments. |  |
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