medic's white powder
 

I got the Band of Brothers box set and have been watching it.... amazing btw... but just what exactly is the white powder that medics put on the wounds of soldiers?

It suspect it was a sulfa drug...

To quote the US Army Military History Institute ---
"SULFA DRUGS
Sulfonamides, available since the mid-1930s, became widely used in the U.S. Army during WWII. Each individual soldier's first aid kit contained a package of sulfa powder (syulfanilamide) for dusting on open wounds..." I would guess the medics carried lots of this with them in their medkits.

My source is the ww2.doc file at this link http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/...phies/medical/

I guess I wasn't fast enough. Oh well. Here's another link I found that you might find interesting.
http://home.att.net/~steinert/wwii.htm
It's the history of WWII medicine.

I was wondering that to, thanks!

I think it acts like a caustic powder, stopping bleeding, almost immediately.