Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Stalin himself gave the Groza Government a potent shot in the arm. He announced that "the Soviet Government has decided to satisfy the petition of the Rumanian Government" and let the Rumanians take over Transylvania, which Hitler gave to Hungary...
...private on the first table had been wounded only slightly. Dr. Howard Johnson of Uniontown, Pa. was rubbing sulfanilamide powder into a hole about the size of a quarter in the boy's left arm. The marine on another table had his face covered. The doctor examining him said to Dr. Silvis: "I think we had better send him to the Corps Medical Battalion. They are better fixed to diagnose eye cases. It looks like this fellow will lose one or maybe both his eyes...
...very pale and dirty marine lay on another table. A corpsman was adjusting the rubber tube carrying the whole blood to his arm. Dr. Silvis said: ""See his lips. He's washed up." Then he turned to the corpsman and said: "Let's give him another bottle and put it in the femoral [big vein in each groin]-the blood can run in faster than it can through the arm...
While waiting for Dr. Silvis to finish, I walked back to the recovery tent. One man wore a plaster cast which covered him from toes to chest. His right arm had been amputated about six inches below the shoulder. He was the only amputation case in the ward, but one of the doctors said that there had been a lot in the past few days - several where two limbs had been lost, two cases where three limbs had been cut off. One of the latter had died after being evacuated...
...sleep. My God, my feet feel numb." It was no wonder. One of his feet had been blown off just above the ankle, leaving a piece of charred bone protruding from beneath a hastily applied bandage. In addition, his other leg was mangled, probably beyond saving, and his arms and hands had been badly torn and burned black. In a few-minutes he stopped groaning, and when the doctor sought to turn his arm gently, the wounded man said: "Go ahead and turn her over, Doc. I'm all right now." Dr. Silvis was just finishing when I returned...