A combat-wounded soldier in World War II had approximately a 70 percent chance of survival. Those odds increased the sooner he reached an Allied hospital and received life-saving blood, according to a 2005 article in Science Daily by surgeon and writer Atul Gawande. As a result, during the war, military leaders and medical professionals quickly realized that the ability to provide blood for wounded service members as quickly as possible was an absolute necessity.
| Date Taken: | 04.22.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 04.25.2019 08:28 |
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| Video ID: | 673421 |
| VIRIN: | 190422-O-D0437-201 |
| Filename: | DOD_106663163 |
| Length: | 00:03:22 |
| Location: | US |
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