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...Russia would administer all Germany lying east of a line drawn from Lübeck to the Elbe...
After examining one particularly bloody case Dr. Beck said, "There is a delicate one. Looks like he got a hand grenade between his legs but I think we can save one testicle." A marine was set down with a shattered kneecap. "Sure, he'll be as good as new," said the doctor, when someone asked if the marine would walk normally. Then came a man who was shot through the thigh, another who had at least five wounds around his chest, neck and right arm, another with a chest wound to whom the doctor said, "What...
This week when I was aboard the Solace Dr. Richmond Beck of Huntington, Long Island, a psychiatrist, was the embarkation officer. It was 7 o'clock in the evening and the Solace was receiving her second shipload of Saipan wounded...
...watched for a while as the wounded were brought up the gangway from the amphibious ducks which had evacuated them from shore. The first patient, a soldier, had been wounded in the back and arm by mortar fragments. Dr. Beck examined his tag and pried under his bandages. "Put him in Surgical One Lower," said the doctor. The bearers lifted him gingerly and walked up the stairway...
...Good." As the wounded were brought in from portside and starboard gangways Dr. Beck examined them briefly and said, "Medical One," "Medical Two," "Orthopedic." It was almost mechanical. One marine had been shot through the throat. A few minutes after he had been assigned to a ward another doctor came back and reported to Dr. Beck, "He got it through the larynx and he is spitting some blood, but there is no paralysis. He can even talk. God is good...