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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...
...chest and abdominal wounds-right down his alley. The portable took care of them so fast that no serious peritonitis developed. They were only a small part of the wounded. Most of the cases were less dangerous- arm, leg, back or buttock wounds. There was only one amputation. Major Swinton's portable had to dig four wells on their bit of dry land before they found a place that was not full of dead Japs...
...There were overlaps and underlaps," said Churchill; "I therefore asked Lord Swinton to undertake this task...
...failed in another job," interrupted Communist Willie Gallacher, referring to Lord Swinton's record of inactivity as Air Secretary under Baldwin and Chamberlain...
...asked tall, spinster-like Independent Austin Hopkinson, had the Prime Minister insisted on making a mystery of the Swinton Committee...