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...mentioned by Correspondent Moorhead, but quite as important as any of these, was the fact that British seapower no longer controls the Mediterranean...
...comparative quiet, a warning voice was heard from Cairo. Able War Correspondent Alan Moorhead cabled to the London Express six cogent reasons why the Axis counterattack had succeeded, why the previous British thrust had stalled. They were...
Most important, Rommel and his Army were not yet exhausted. "Sooner or later," said Correspondent Moorhead, "Rommel is going to get tired, really tired. But not, I think, before the end of this year...
...Sunday evening almost all the 960 casualties had been treated. Dr. Moorhead attributed this remarkable success to a sixfold program: 1) prompt transportation of the wounded to hospitals; 2) generous use of transfusions (there was a large supply of stored blood in Honolulu); 3) thorough débridement (trimming) of all injured tissue-if allowed to remain it dies, becomes a breeding ground for gangrene germs; 4) no suturing, even of big wounds -if left alone, new tissue grows up rapidly; 5) liberal use of sulfa drugs; 6) painstaking care after operation...
...great help was a remarkable new foreign-body detector which Dr. Moorhead had with him. It was invented by Samuel Berman, a research engineer in the New York City Transit Department. The cigar-sized instrument works on the principle of a radio tube; when held over a wounded man a long, pencil-like apparatus shows on a recording dial the presence and exact location of a metallic substance in the body. Dr. Moorhead's detector is the only one that has been made; it is still in Honolulu. Said he: "It proved invaluable for saving precious time...