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Word: tented (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waiting last week on the African mainland to put the sick and wounded from Sicily to bed was the Charlotte, N.C., Evacuation Hospital, an all-tent, mobile affair, with over 1,000 cots and a big staff of doctors, nurses and enlisted men. Correspondent Ernie Pyle has told how this evac took in patients twelve hours after the U.S. landing near Algiers last November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Charlotte Evac | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

Blood and Running Water. Compared with those dynamic days, the tent hospital on its broad hill with gravel driveways now has a settled look. Italian prisoners have installed running water and some of the other comforts of home. The pharmacy hands out prescriptions and runs a blood bank (plasma is not enough for some cases with great blood loss, and the Evac stores whole blood bled from its own personnel). The shock tents give transfusions, prepare men for operations; the operating tent can handle 16 cases an hour around the clock. The dentistry tent with three chairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Charlotte Evac | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...both Allied and Axis) are picked up by the U.S. Army Medical Corps in Sicily, get first aid, are then flown over the water in an air ambulance to a field near the Evac. A ground ambulance picks them up and deposits them at the hospital's receiving tent. There a casualty is treated much like a patient entering a ward at home. His field medical record is begun with entries describing his wound and how he got it-these entries are copied from the tag attached to his coverall. The record, stamped with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Charlotte Evac | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...spent shell fragment. . . tore a hole through my pup tent just beside me one noon while I was resting. I keep this, for I have a certain sentimental attachment for it. Had it been an inch longer, my life would have been a lot shorter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Time Goes By | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

Companionship of Death. In a burned tent about two miles from Massacre, I found eight grotesque little Japanese bodies, clothes burned off, arms reaching outward or upward-where there were arms. Two bodies were burned to crisps, one atop the other, fused into one charred hump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE ENEMY: Perhaps He Is Human | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

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