[DOC] [TLE] The Rise of the Helicopter During the Korean War | HistoryNet [PAR] Jan 16, 2011 ... Few technical innovations were equal in importance to the growing use of ... The 
first recorded use of a U.S. helicopter in combat came in May ... created on 
December 1, 1947, to test the use of rotary wing aircraft .... In the next month 
alone, the Air Rescue choppers evacuated 83 critically wounded soldiers,... [DOC] [TLE] Evolution of civil aeromedical helicopter aviation. - NCBI [PAR] (1)Air Transport Department, Schumpert Medical Center, Shreveport, LA. ... 
during the 1980s is the culmination of several hundred years of military medical 
innovation. ... The Napoleonic Era and the American Civil War provided the 
framework for the ... The use of airplanes to evacuate the wounded eventually led 
to using... [DOC] [TLE] korea - the first helicopter war - ELMC Blog [PAR] That crucial trip aboard a chopper from Marine Observation Squadron 6 ... 
evacuation roles, the Navy was flying those same choppers from aircraft ... Within 
months, Air Force helicopters joined the Marine choppers in rushing badly 
wounded ... use of the helicopter for medical evacuations," one Army history 
declared. [DOC] [TLE] Lessons learnt and battlefield innovations from the Middle East are ... [PAR] Damage control surgery is used extensively in the area of operations, with careful 
... These devices resulted in multi-site injuries and fragmentation wounds3. ... 
Haemorrhage from extremity wounds accounted for one tenth of this number and 
... These phenomena will make the aeromedical evacuation of a burns patient... [DOC] [TLE] Medical Evacuation, History and Development - Defense Technical ... [PAR] In the earliest wars, there was no organised system for evacuating wounded ... 
However, in his later years, Larrey developed these "ambulances ... One of the 
most-used forms of patient transportation today is aircraft. .... Looking back, we 
are forced to observe that the record of air evacuation in WWII and the Korean 
War,. [DOC] [TLE] Trench warfare - Wikipedia [PAR] Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting 
largely of trenches, in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy's 
small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. The most famous 
use of trench warfare is the Western Front in World War I. It ..... These were used 
to provide a sheltered place for the waves of attacking... [DOC] [TLE] MILITARY MEDICINE DURING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY [PAR] 3-1. Identify major medical and military events associated with the twentieth ... He 
later designed a purification filter for field use in World War I. Around the same .... 
Patients evacuated to treatment facilities in the rear traveled in hospital trains ..... "
...the use of airplanes for the transportation of sick and wounded soldiers, when... [DOC] [TLE] The Origins of EMS in Military Medicine - Journal of Emergency ... [PAR] Sep 30, 2008 ... In WWII, these first aid men entered combat, becoming the corpsmen and ... the 
scene of injury to the hospital in the Korean Conflict and the Vietnam War. ... use 
of aeromedical evacuation, clinical advancements in treatment and ... during his 
military campaigns, but army regulations kept them one league... [DOC] [TLE] Geneva Convention Information Air Ambulances [PAR] The use of aviation for medical purposes received legal sanction in 1929, when 
the ... and concluding a Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war, did not 
think it ... (1) The Conference approved this draft, and instructed the International 
... they may be used both for the evacuation of the wounded and sick, and for... [DOC] [TLE] War and Medicine - Oxford Reference [PAR] The relationship between war and medicine is complex. ... Apparently, on at least 
one occasion, during the so-called Pontiac Rebellion in 1763, .... the evacuation 
of wounded by dedicated vehicles and through an echeloned system of ... and 
case reporting and used the unprecedented opportunities provided by observing
... [DOC] [TLE] Tactical and Materiel Innovations - US Army Center Of Military History [PAR] May 1, 1973 ... trying to meet a new challenge in terms of the old one, the Army ... accomplished 
while the war in Vietnam was at its peak, and the

Question: One of the war's innovations was the use of these aircraft for observation & for evacuation of the wounded
Answer: helicopters