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Four in a Jeep. The timely story of a four-power MP patrol in Vienna, split by the plight of a Viennese girl in trouble with the Soviet command; with Viveca Lindfors, Ralph Meeker (TIME, June...
Four in a Jeep. The timely story of a four-power MP patrol in Vienna, split by the plight of a Viennese girl in trouble with the Soviet command; with Viveca Lindfors, Ralph Meeker (TIME, June...
Eleven hours later, the private was resting comfortably between the clean sheets of a U.S. Army evacuation hospital near Seoul. The faithful medics had brought him down from his bloody hill by litter jeep, taken him to a mobile field hospital where a helicopter whirled him off for neurosurgery at the evacuation hospital. The surgeons deftly chipped away some of the skull, carefully picked and washed the dirt, bone splinters and hair from the missile track in his brain, and sewed him up again. The splinter itself, about five milimeters square, was left untouched; to remove it would have meant...
Meirowsky shuttled between Japan and Taegu, performing operations at both bases. During lulls, he dashed off by jeep or helicopter to the front to tell medics how to handle brain cases, teaching them to go easy on morphine, so that any complications could be spotted easily. He devised a system of sandwiching paraplegics between two padded litters so that their position could be safely changed by a single quick flip, thus avoiding blood poisoning from bed sores...
...Jeep: "The combined appeal of an intelligent dog and a perfect gadget. . . looks like a sturdy sardine can on wheels . . . one of the few genuine expressions of machine...