Close-up of a 1930s iron lung, with text describing its manufacturer.

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A Fighting Chance: Disease, Public Health, and the Military, Part 2

Two of the most remarkable stories in military medical history happened in the exact same place: Walcheren, a strip of land that sits like a cork in the mouth of the Scheldt River running through the Netherlands and Belgium.