Army medic George Lott, wounded in both arms in November, 1944, grimaces as doctors mold a cast to his body. When Lott embarked on a 4,500-mile, seven-hospital journey of recovery, photographer Ralph Morse – astonished by the high level of medical care wounded troops received both at the front and behind the lines – traveled with him, and chronicled Lott's odyssey in a revelatory cover story for LIFE. (Photo by Ralph Morse/Time & Life Pictures)
