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...blood last week. Press, radio, television and posters carried repeated appeals for blood donors. The fact behind the flurry was that U.S. armed forces are running short of blood and plasma. "We have enough whole blood on hand for about one week of heavy fighting," said an Army medic in Tokyo...
...Thanks, buddy," as someone handed him a lighted cigarette. A stout medic at the flaps suddenly shouted, "Litter case!" Two soldiers walked carefully into the tent, laid a stretcher on packing cases in the cone of light from a spotlight. The man on the stretcher moaned faintly. A field dressing lay across his eyes. His face was dirty, bearded, bloody. A doctor in an undershirt looked at the medical sergeant across the stretcher and shook his head in pity. Then he leaned over the wounded man and began gently to remove the field dressing...
...Acute Anxiety." The medic at the door continued his record of those who came into the tent, putting notations beside names: "Gunshot wound . . . acute anxiety . . . broken wrist." Outside, the rain ceased and a single star broke through a rift in the clouds. The artillery hammered...
...medic at the flaps shouted again: "Litter case!" Two stretcher-bearers, ponchos glistening, carried in another wounded...
...young, ex-army medic posted himself outside the Union last night, distributing "peace by pacificism" pamphlets to freshmen. The pamphlets, put out by a small group called "The War Resisters League" with a New York City office, urged "non-violent non-cooperation...