“Red Cross, Double Cross”: Race and America's World War II-Era Blood Donor Service - Thomas A. Guglielmo
https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/97/1/63/719496
>The American Red Cross Blood Donor Service was a remarkable World War II achievement. From early 1941 through the end of the war, the Red Cross collected blood from millions of donors across America; a dozen laboratories processed it into substitutes called plasma and serum albumin; and the military then shipped these substitutes, and whole blood as well, to service personnel fighting overseas. The entire operation—run jointly by the military and the Red Cross, an organization whose authority and mission came from the federal government but whose workers and funds came from the private sector—was staggering in scope. By the end of the war, 6.7 million volunteers had donated over 13 million pints of blood at thirty-five fixed donor centers and sixty-three mobile units. These units, “self-contained collection centers on specially built trucks,”
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