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...circling bomber, then jumped himself. He landed in a tree, fell 20 ft., but scrambled up unhurt. When the main rescue party arrived (by land) nearly four hours later, the patients had been fed, bandaged, drugged to ease their pain. They could not say enough in praise of their paradoctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Paradoctor | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...paradoctors attached to the Search and Rescue Section of the Second Air Force. Together with six others whom the Second Air Force trained at Buckley Field, Colo. for Arctic search and rescue work, they are the only specially trained parachuting doctors in the U.S. armed forces. The Arctic paradoctors have already left the U.S. Since January, the remaining six, stationed at widely separated bases west of the Mississippi, have rescued 79 men-a good return for the $30,000 spent on their training and the $2,000 spent to equip each paradoctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Paradoctor | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

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