Summary Part of Medics Week on WW2TV Military historian Ted Barris once asked his father, "What did you do in the war?" What the former US Army medic then told his son forms the thrust of tonight's show - an exploration of his father's wartime experiences as a medic leading up to the Battle of the Bulge in 1944-45, along with stories of other medics in combat throughout history. He will explain that this bloodiest of WWII battles was shouldered largely by military medics. Medics in combat evacuated the wounded on foot, scrounged medical supplies where there were seemed to be none, and dodged snipers and booby traps on the most frigid and desolate battlefields of Europe. While retracing his father's wartime experience Ted will also tell other stories of life-and-death struggles of military medical personnel.

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