Wounded U.S. soldiers flown to hospitals near their homes. A U.S.

Wounded U.S. soldiers flown to hospitals near their homes. A U.S. Army nurse makes a final check of litter cases in an Air Service Command transport plane before it takes off from an Army air base in the Eastern U.S. to take wounded men from a general hospital on the East Coast to Army hospitals close to their homes all over the U.S. The plpane is staffed by a medical technician, in addition to the nurse, and has facilities for at least 18 patients.