Caring for the Wounded

The boats that dropped off fresh troops and supplies picked up the wounded men on the return trip and sent them to hospital ships.

This was important as the logistics of taking care of the wounded was often overlooked in a battle of this scale.

The LSTs (tank landing ships) transported almost 80% of the wounded evacuated from Normandy.

The hospital ships were painted white and were marked with a red Geneva cross and were protected under the provisions of the 1907 Hague Convention.





There were 17,345 army nurses in the European Theater of war by June 1945.