Here are the stories of the valiant doctors and corpsmen whose job during World War II was to save lives. These courageous noncombatants were present at every battlefront-risking their own lives time after time-to bring medical help to their wounded comrades.

As an intelligence officer with the Naval Air Corps in World War II, Wyatt Blassingame served on the islands of Tinian and Okinawa, earning a Bronze Star. He witnessed the work of corpsmen and medics when he visited sick and wounded comrades in hospitals on Hawaii, Saipan, and Okinawa.