Credit: Courtesy of the Pennsylvania State Archives
Opened in 1943, the Valley Forge General Hospital was the nation's largest military hospital by the end of World War II. Able to treat more than 3,000 patients in its more than 100 separate buildings, the hospital specialized in the treatment of eye injuries, and conducted pioneering work in the fields of plastic surgery and eye surgery. In western Pennsylvania, the Deshon General Hospital, in Butler, specialized in injuries to hearing.
