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Sirs: Please accept my sincere thanks for the interesting story on oil and the intricacies of drilling for the stuff [TIME, April 3]. A lone oil man could be a pretty nice guy, I guess, but I've lived with a good half-dozen ever since joining this battalion two years ago. I believe I have yet to hear any two of them reach an agreement, and I have listened to them screech at each other all the way across the Pacific. The C.O. is one of 'em but his rank doesn't help him when...
...34th Division's Corporal James P. Fouche gave an eyewitness report of Chaplain Hoffmann in action: "Our battalion was ordered to take Hill 490, the smaller hill near Hill 609. One of the fellows ahead got hit. We could hear him moaning and two medics tried to reach him, but they could not because of the enemy machine-gun fire raking the area. The poor guy kept calling and two other medics tried to take a stab at it, but they couldn't reach him, either...
...other battle areas, the invasion wounded are evacuated through a system of echelons, beginning with the single Medical Corpsman who follows each platoon (even if it travels by parachute), the litter bearers and the battalion aid station 1,000 yards from the front, and ending with convalescent hospitals in the U.S. In between come: 1) division clearing stations (usually about eight miles from the front), where the wounded are sorted according to their wounds; 2) mobile evacuation hospitals and field hospitals, 15 to 30 miles behind the lines; 3) station and convalescent hospitals in the rear. Ready for piecemeal hauling...
...hurt much at first. For more severe wounds, Medical Corpsmen are ready on the battlefield with dope. If a wounded man can walk, he is bandaged and told where to go. If he cannot walk, litter bearers are sent for him. He gets some temporary patching at the battalion aid station and more at the clearing station...
...chose to start his military career in the Irish Guards rather than the Coldstream Guards which his grandfather had commanded. In World War I he went over the top 30 times, was wounded twice, became a lieutenant colonel and a battalion commander...