Word: evac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...term evacuation hospital may have a sound unpleasantly antiseptic to civilians. To the badly wounded soldier it sounds like the difference between life and death. For the "evac" hospital is the nearest place to gunfire where a wounded man can get more than emergency treatment. Until he gets there, a soldier keeps his boots...
...last week on the African mainland to put the sick and wounded from Sicily to bed was the Charlotte, N.C., Evacuation Hospital, an all-tent, mobile affair, with over 1,000 cots and a big staff of doctors, nurses and enlisted men. Correspondent Ernie Pyle has told how this evac took in patients twelve hours after the U.S. landing near Algiers last November...
...Different. With over 9,000 patients and only 19 deaths behind it, the Charlotte Evac now has the honor of handling casualties from Sicily and routing them to other evacs or to station hospitals in the rear. Most such medical units are volunteer doctor groups backed by rich, big-city hospitals. This evac is different: its medical staff is composed of young doctors from Charlotte, N.C., and a sprinkling of other doctors, mainly Southerners. As Charlotte has no rich hospital, initial support for the unit came from the proceeds of a local show and from contributions around town...
...dental procrastinators to his chair when he announced he was leaving Charlotte). Charlotte also contributed several other doctors, two business managers-Captain Stanton Pickens, who used to work for the Coca-Cola Co. and "Buck" Medearis, manager of a laundry-and many of the nurses. Once when the Evac was stuck on a siding waiting to move nearer the front, the engineer of a train going the other way called: "Anyone from Charlotte, N.C.?" The answering chorus nearly knocked...
Though not from Charlotte, the commanding officer is one of the Evac's favorite characters: he is a non-medical Army man, Colonel Rollin L. Bauchpies of Mauch Chunk, Pa., who calls the hospital's venereal disease section "Casanova." The enlisted men of the unit are mostly New Englanders. They come in for a lot of Mason-Dixon Line ribbing...