title: [Health service of the Nowogrodzki area section of the Polish Home Army (AK)].
abstract: The article discusses the formation, development and activity of health service of the Nowogrodzki area section of the Polish Home Army, methods of acquiring staff, medical equipment and supplies, as well as forms and principles of helping wounded and suffering. These questions have been discussed against the background of military tasks set for the area sections by the Chief Home Army Commanders. In July 1944, its soldiers took part in the "Ostra Brama" military operation aimed at liberation of the city of Wilno (present Vilnius). During combat, the Home Army medical services worked unsparingly. An ordeal for physicians, pharmacists, and nurses were the arrests and murders commited.
authors.forename: Zdzislaw
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Jezierski
mesh_terms: D006296:Health Services / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000266:history; D011044:Poland