Hospital Admission Card Files

The files contain 7.9 million records pertaining to some 5.3 million patients, mostly U.S. Army personnel wounded in battle during World War II and the Korean War. The World War II records include only Army personnel treated at Army facilities, but the Korean War records include a few records (approximately 5 percent ) for non-Army personnel and non-Army treatment facilities (approximately 4 percent).

The records contain various medical treatment information about each patient including diagnoses, operations, and dates and places of hospitalization. They do not contain the name of the hospital patient, but list military service number, age, race, sex, place of birth, rank and unit. This data comprises government records extracted from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC).