U.S. Red Cross members work at general hospital on the Stilwell Road.

U.S. Red Cross members work at general hospital on the Stilwell Road. American Red Cross workers supervise craft work at a U.S. Army hospital somewhere on the Stilwell Road in the Burma-India theater of war. The American Red Cross in 1944 furnished relief for 40.000.000 (M) people in countries affected by the war through 3,000,000 (M) volunteer workers in those countries. Among its many functions, the Red Cross supplies and staffs health stations in war-torn areas, provides whole blood and blood plasma for wounded fighting men and relays messages, food and comfort articles from home to servicemen taken prisoner by the enemy. NI 9268