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...dripping Army tent in Buna last week a heavy-set Boston surgeon, Major Neil Swinton, wiped the sweat from his balding head, looked down at the soldier on the stretcher-newest patient of the "fourth portable." The boy was dirty, his eyes were closed, his chest was taped where the Major had cut out a sniper's slug the size of a silver dollar which had torn through from the back, just missing his heart. But because of the soothing hypodermic and the yellowish fluid now trickling into his arm, he was breathing easily. Only 40 minutes before...
Classed as objectors willing to accept noncombatant duties (1-A-O)-ambulance drivers, stretcher-bearers, etc.-were 6,577 others. (Most famous 1-A-O: Cinemactor Lew Ayres.) In prison for draft-law violations were between 1,000 and 1,300 avowed conscientious objectors, half of them members of Jehovah's Witnesses, whose claims did not get draft-board recognition...
...field back to the U.S. Every combat battalion has at least two medical men who take their equipment-including X-ray machines-up to as close as 400 yards of the fighting. Medical department soldiers assigned to the unit go out in the field, apply emergency first aid, call stretcher bearers. Stretcher bearers tag the wounded, bring them to the unit's field station. There the doctors give necessary quick treatment. Their orders are to stick to their stations. If the line of battle gives, they may be killed or captured like any other soldier...
...these field-aid stations come stretcher bearers to take wounded men back to a collecting station. There further treatment is given, if necessary, before ambulance transportation to the division's clearing station, where wounded are sorted according to the type and severity of their wounds...
...Spellman described in detail the work of the stretcher bearers and ambulances recently, when many lives were. saved only by the efforts of these volunteers under the direction of the Fire Department...