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Army hospitals in Europe have treated 1,375,000 sick and wounded patients. Of the 375,000 wounded who reached the hospital, 96.1% survived (compared with 92% in World War I); 220,000 of them are now back in service. In rescuing the injured, 2,000 medical corpsmen were killed, 10,000 wounded...
...roughly half of them WAVES are at work. At the Navy Department in Washington there are more Navy women than men. In Hawaii, the farthest place overseas to which Congress would let them venture, the WAVES are competently filling a crying need for yeomen, aviation ratings, hospital corpsmen...
...Twice they hit casualty stations on the beach. Many men who had been only wounded were killed. The command post of one of the assault battalions got a direct hit which killed several officers. An artillery battalion based near the beach had twelve men killed. One group of medical corpsmen was reduced from 28 to 11; the corpsmen were taking it, as usual...
Amphibious Medicine. To care for the sick and wounded the Navy has created "amphibious medicine" to go with its amphibious warfare. First in line are medical corpsmen, "the real heroes of our medical organization," who land on the beaches with assault troops. From the corpsmen stretches a chain of medical facilities-aid stations, field hospitals, hospital ships, advance base hospitals-which have saved the lives of 98 out of every 100 wounded...
...that night, all next day, Infantryman Edwards fought to stay conscious. He knew that unless he did, he and anyone who attempted to move him before he could warn them would be blown to pieces. He smoked some cigarets which the Germans had overlooked, and waited. Hours past midnight, corpsmen came. Soldier Edwards had just enough strength left to warn them. They gingerly cut the wires and, after 70 excruciating hours, got him to safety...