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...blood. Bombardier-navigator of an Army 6-25, he was severely wounded in the legs during the bombing of a Jap base in the Marshalls. He might have died but for a plasma transfusion fellow crew members gave him in midair. Plasma transfusions by doctors and nurses aboard big, bunk-filled hospital evacuation planes are nothing new. But Lieut. Doyle's planemates had never given a full transfusion before. (The flight surgeon, Captain Lowell Ladd Eddy, had insisted on crews taking along plasma, had taught them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Saved in Mid-Air | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...returned from Tarawa on a transport which brought out many wounded. The Marine officer in the bunk below me said that first night, 'Can you see?' I said yes, I could see. He said, 'I can't see-I will never see again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Voice in the Dark | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

Painter George Luks: ";Da Vinci is the bunk-a mathematician, a subway digger." >An offer by a Manhattan tattooist to prick the Last Supper in eight colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tribute to Gicmthood | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...came to my bunk a little while ago and he said: "I'm so goddam mad I'm never going to believe a radio commentator or newspaperman again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The News, Unvarnished | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...encouraging to find Technical Sergeant George believing that most soldiers will emerge from the Army better men than they went in, and that he finds the old cry that war ruins a lot of men to be "bunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 6, 1943 | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

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