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...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...
During the Mateur and Bizerte battles the Charlotte Evac was just behind the lines. The unit got so good at moving that in the final North African push it discharged patients in Beja and received some in Tunis (some 55 miles apart) on the same...
...broad hill with gravel driveways now has a settled look. Italian prisoners have installed running water and some of the other comforts of home. The pharmacy hands out prescriptions and runs a blood bank (plasma is not enough for some cases with great blood loss, and the Evac stores whole blood bled from its own personnel). The shock tents give transfusions, prepare men for operations; the operating tent can handle 16 cases an hour around the clock. The dentistry tent with three chairs was for a long time the only place in North Africa where U.S. servicemen could get false...
...improvised equipment: sterilizers made from potato cans, shower baths made from gasoline drums, hinges from shell cases, an icebox from a Coca-Cola vending machine, can openers from any old thing (though 90% of field rations come in cans, the hospital set out without a single can opener). The Evac's most elaborate contrivance is a "Hawley table," a device for holding a man's body suspended for the application of big casts, which some men from the Air Corps Ordnance Department made from spare parts...