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...teams landed on Urirchar, they tried to inoculate 300 people against typhoid, tetanus and cholera. But the resources at hand were totally inadequate: all the injections had to be given with the same needle because replacements were not available. "We cannot change the needle," said Nurul Islam, a navy medic. "We cannot afford it. God give them resistance...
...went wide, and the third tore through Nicholson's chest as he turned. "I've been shot, Jess," the major gasped. Schatz grabbed a first-aid box and started running toward him but was forced back into the car by Soviet soldiers. It was another hour before a Soviet medic examined Nicholson; by then he was dead. The next day, an East German ambulance delivered Nicholson's body to a U.S. honor guard at the center of Berlin's Glienicker Brucke, the bridge at the East-West crossing point where captured Soviet Spy Rudolf Abel was exchanged for downed...
Last week the Communist government of Laos allowed a twelve-man U.S. "technical" team, including two explosives experts and a medic, to enter the country, excavate the crash site and hunt for the victims. Late in the week, a U.S. embassy spokesman in Bangkok reported that the searchers found portions of human bones that might be those of missing crewmen...
Roger Lantagne, a medic with the 101st Airborne, married a Frenchwoman when the war ended and retired nine years ago to Enghien-les-Bains outside Paris after more than three decades of military service in Korea, Viet Nam and Europe. Lantagne, a native of Lewiston, Me., remembers that he was tending German and American wounded in a village church not far from Utah Beach when the village was recaptured by the Germans. "A high-ranking German, accompanied by troops with automatic weapons, suddenly burst into the church. They looked at us, at the bloodstained pews and the German wounded, then...
Trujillo will soon get a silver star from the Army for repeatedly rushing into the flaming wreckage of three U.S. helicopters that had crashed during the Grenada invasion (one, hit by ground fire, had smashed into the other two). A medic, he ignored enemy shooting and the possibility of imminent explosions of the chopper fuel tanks to pull at least three comrades to safety...