In 1923 the U.S. Congress appropriated funds for the erection of a hospital at Fort Benning, and the ten-building complex opened in 1925. During World War II as many as 36,000 wounded per year received care there, and in 1951, during the Korean War, 25,000 casualties were treated. After a new hospital opened in 1958, the complex served as an out-patient clinic until 1975, when the main building was designated the permanent home of the National Infantry Museum. Established there at the U.S. Army’s Infantry Center in October 1959, the museum honors the infantryman and more than two centuries of service to the nation, reflects the history of Fort Benning since its establishment in October 1918, and displays weapons, uniforms, accouterments, foreign artifacts, and military-related art associated with U.S. infantrymen in the nation’s military engagements.