[The delivery of ophthalmological care in World War II]

The basic questions of organization of the military field ophthalmology were worked out by B. L. Poliak and tested on practice before the Great Patriotic war during Japanese conflict on the Khalka [correction of Khalkhin-Gol] River and in Soviet-Finnish war. Ophthalmological care during the Great Patriotic war had a number of innovations, such as stitching of fibrotic membrane, electromagnetic removal of foreign bodies, and application of complex treatment made it possible to lower the cases of preventive enucleation and reduce the time of plastic operations. In the result of these methods the blindness came to 3.9% (in US Army--5.1%).