Medicine Under Canvas is a book and a documentary film about the 77th Evacuation Hospital[1] during World War II.
The rare book is 200 pages long and is arguably the most detailed history of an evacuation hospital in the European and North African theatres of war.
Early sections of the book include a view of what the injured soldier experienced from arrival through treatment and then until he is evacuated to home, another hospital or back to his unit.
Preliminary organization began earlier, but the actual unit was not drawn up until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
They began active operation in Oran, after the Allies invaded North Africa, and continued there and in Sicily until the surrender of all axis forces in that theatre in 1943.