Photograph of six women in a woman's ward at Fort Sam Houston Hospital. The Red Cross volunteer is in her uniform beside the first bed on the right. The person next to her is UNIDENTIFIED. The tree women are (L-R): Mrs. Etta Volta, Mrs. Frances Davidson and Mrs. Eva Greene

Photograph of returned war veteran, Staff Sargent Gonzolo Garza entertains youngsters in the Red Cross shelter while hurricane Beulah rages outside.

Photograph of damage after the May 11 tornado in Lubbock, TX. The Red Cross OK Chapter assisted in providing help where it was needed. The photograph shows the side of a building with a painted sign that reads: "Is a refuge in time of storm."

Photograph of members of the San Antonio Boys Club learning the latest methods in treating the injured. The 'traumatic shock sufferer' is Charles Raney. Assisting him are safety expert, Herbert LeBrescu and Mrs. Bess H. Winston, Red Cross first aider. Thousands of similar scenes have been enacted, particularly during the war years, as Americans took advantage of the free first aid courses offer by the Red Cross chapters.

Photograph of unidentified bus drivers for the Dixie Sunshine Trailways Company using First Aid textbooks to learn first aid and how to care for injured while working.

Photograph of Don Gray, business manager for the Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Union, Locale 823 of Harlingen, TX, accompanying John England (wearing hat) chairman of the west Cameron County Chapter Red Cross observing Red Cross feeding operations at an Army mobile kitchen. The Red Cross provided hot meals for as many at 10,000 persons daily. Much of the food and other necessary commodities were delivered by volunteer union workers in the Rio Grande Valley.

Photograph of the Red Cross shelter, in Brownsville, TX, after Hurricane Beulah. The Red Cross is helping not only housing but helping with recovery paperwork.

Photograph of damage after the May 11 tornado in Lubbock, TX. The Red Cross OK Chapter assisted in providing help where it was needed.

Photograph of damage after the May 11 tornado in Lubbock, TX. The Red Cross OK Chapter assisted in providing help where it was needed.

Photograph of damage after the May 11 tornado in Lubbock, TX. The Red Cross OK Chapter assisted in providing help where it was needed.

Photograph of damage after the May 11 tornado in Lubbock, TX. The Red Cross OK Chapter assisted in providing help where it was needed. Shown are unidentified people assessing damages.

Photograph of damage after the May 11 tornado in Lubbock, TX. The Red Cross OK Chapter assisted in providing help where it was needed. Shown is the OK Chapter's Red Cross truck.

Photograph of damage after the May 11 tornado in Lubbock, TX. The Red Cross OK Chapter assisted in providing help where it was needed.

Photograph of damage after the May 11 tornado in Lubbock, TX. The Red Cross OK Chapter assisted in providing help where it was needed. The photograph is of a small church in ruins.

Photograph of damage after the May 11 tornado in Lubbock, TX. The Red Cross OK Chapter assisted in providing help where it was needed. Shown is an easy chair no longer of use.

Photograph of damage after the May 11 tornado in Lubbock, TX. The Red Cross OK Chapter assisted in providing help where it was needed.

Photograph of damage after the May 11 tornado in Lubbock, TX. The Red Cross OK Chapter assisted in providing help where it was needed. In the photograph an unidentified man and a Red Cross worker are at a table talking.

Photograph of damage after the May 11 tornado in Lubbock, TX. The Red Cross OK Chapter assisted in providing help where it was needed. An unidentified Red Cross worker is checking on people who have been given beds until they can get back to some normalcy.

Photograph of damage after the May 11 tornado in Lubbock, TX. The Red Cross OK Chapter assisted in providing help where it was needed. A unidentified young Red Cross worker is playing a game with a large group of children.

Photograph of damage after the May 11 tornado in Lubbock, TX. The Red Cross OK Chapter assisted in providing help where it was needed.

Photograph of damage after the May 11 tornado in Lubbock, TX. The Red Cross OK Chapter assisted in providing help where it was needed. The scene in the photograph shows seven unidentified women and one man at what appears to be a school room.

Photograph of damage after the May 11 tornado in Lubbock, TX. The Red Cross OK Chapter assisted in providing help where it was needed. The two Red Cross worker and helping make and pack sandwiches for distribution. They are all UNIDENTIFIED.

Photograph of damage after the May 11 tornado in Lubbock, TX. The Red Cross OK Chapter assisted in providing help where it was needed. An unidentified Red Cross worker and mother feeding her sleeping baby, are helped to file paperwork. A crowd of others are waiting.

Photograph of damage after the May 11 tornado in Lubbock, TX. The Red Cross OK Chapter assisted in providing help where it was needed.