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Lesson from Attu...
After reading TIME, June 28, "Burial in the Aleutians" by Robert Sherrod, I wish that every man & woman . . . could read these lines. . . . TIME'S reporters have brought the war on Attu so realistically to us that I know those who read about it will never kick about rationing points or gasoline, but will give up willingly former comforts and help materially and spiritually to end this...
TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, who witnessed the Attu action, tells in a letter received last week what U.S. Army doctors did for Attu wounded...
...field hospital on Attu, with a staff of three surgeons, has treated 529 men wounded in battle since U.S. troops landed a month ago. Only three casualties have died. Not one case of infection has turned up in the muddy little hospital area. Doctors credit this record to debridement (cutting out of dead tissues) and sulfanilamide...
During the first few days of the fighting on Attu, belly wounds were predominant. The reason: green troops had not learned to hug the ground closely. During the later phases of Attu's fierce fight more men were wounded in the buttocks than anywhere else. This prompted the hospital's senior surgeon, Major Merriwell T. Shelton, of Augusta, Me., to observe: "A lot of soldiers wearing Purple Heart ribbons are going to have a hard time explaining how they got wounded...