Surgery on the battlefield: Mobile surgical units in the Second World War and the memoirs they produced Venables KM J Med Biogr. 2023 Aug; 31(3): 202–211. In the Second World War, there was a flowering of the battlefield surgery pioneered in the Spanish Civil War. There were small, mobile surgical units in all the theatres of the War, working close behind the fighting and deployed flexibly according to the nature of the conflict . With equipment transported by truck, jeep or mule, they operated in tents, bunkers and requisitioned buildings and carried out abdominal,...