Surgery Movies for Instruction

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Title

Surgery Movies for Instruction

Alternative Title

Surgery Movies for Instruction

Subject

World War, 1939-1945
Veterans--Florida

Description

A magazine article published by The Air Force Official Service Journal in May of 1943. The article describes an instituted policy of filming important surgical operations performed at the Base Hospital at Wendover Field, Utah. The first filmed operation was on William Woznak (1919-1997).

Born on August 5, 1919, in Montreal, Canada, William Woznak's family immigrated to Michigan. He enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps on January 6, 1942, serving on the Repair Squadron at Wendover Field in Utah. After the war, Woznak returned to Michigan and married Elizabeth Beatrice Genick. He fathered three children, named Marian, Bill, and Walter. By the 1970s, the family moved to Naples, Florida, where Woznak worked as a realtor and building consultant. He died on January 28, 1997, in Naples, and is memorialized at the Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell.

In 2017, the University of Central Florida was one of three universities selected to launch the National Cemetery Administration’s Veterans Legacy Program Project. The program engaged a team of scholars to make the life stories of veterans buried in the Florida National Cemetery available to the public. The project engages UCF students in research and writing and fosters collaboration between students, faculty and local Central Florida schools to produce interactive curriculum for k-12 students. The corresponding website exhibit uses RICHES Mosaic Interface to create a digital archive of related data. The public can use the project-developed augmented-reality app at more than 100 gravesites at the Florida National Cemetery, where they can access the UCF student-authored biographies of veterans.

Source

Digital reproduction of original newspaper article: "Surgery Movies for Instruction." Air Force Magazine, Wendover Field, Utah, May, 1943.

Publisher

Date Created

ca. 1943-05

Format

image/jpg

Extent

143 KB

Medium

1 newspaper article

Language

eng

Type

Text

Coverage

Wendover Air Force Base, Utah

Accrual Method

Donation

Mediator

History Teacher

Provenance

Originally created and produced by Air Force Magazine.

Rights Holder

Copyright to this resource is held by Air Force Magazine and is provided here by RICHES for educational purposes only.

Curator

Connolly, Lehman
Cravero, Geoffrey

Source Repository

External Reference

Abney, Barb. "VA Selects UCF Historians to Archive Stories of Deceased Veterans Veterans." UCF Today, March 13, 2017. Accessed August 9, 2017. https://today.ucf.edu/va-selects-ucf-historians-archive-stories-deceased-veterans/.

Citation

Air Force Magazine, “Surgery Movies for Instruction,” RICHES, accessed November 24, 2024, https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/10297.

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