Thursday, March 11, 1943.
Page Two
It's A Great Life
Notes From a Soldier's Sketch Book
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
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T Sgt. Edwin A Brown
Editor
Sporti Editor
Pic Bob Ruskauff
AMP
OMMANDER’S
OLUMN
Camp Adair
Right now is a time that de
mands of soldiers a steadiness that
carries on in face of doubt and un
certainty. It is a time for refusing
to be swayed from a purpose either
by reverses or successes, by impa
tience, confusion or misunderstand
ing.
"Our Wounded Live"
I War as it is being waged today
Wherever our men may be fighting overseas, medical
is too gigantic, too complex for
snap judgment as to just what will
units go to the front with them. Skilled doctors, trained in
happen at any certain time. There
Army maneuvers, ride in tanks, fly in planes, jump with our
is too much haste on the part of
paratroops, ski with our ski troops. Mobile hospital units
many of the news commentators
etpiipped with the most modern medical devices move swiftly
and correspondents in assuming
to the scene of action. Every step is taken to see to it that our
that battles ih which the allies
! have shown superiority are virtual
fighting men receive the best of medical attention as quickly
ly push-overs for our side.
as possible.
Soldiers —- good soldiers—know
The dread scourge cf the wounded is infection. In the
that it is necessary in win many
World War. wounded men left on the battlefield» while the
s
| battles before winning the war. If
r
combat raged, soon were afflicted with gangrene. Loas of
he allows himself to be buoyed up
i
¡if»- was heavy, amputations numerous. Abdominal wounds
1 excessively when he hears good
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almost always were fatal.
reports over the radio and starts
planning on turning in all of his
Now, the skilled doctors of our Medical Corps no longer
GI equipment except the uniform
fight a losing battle against infection. Each soldier is pro I
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; he is wearing back home, the let
vided with a package of sulfanilamide tablets and a shaker General Order No. 4?”
' thousands of women where to
down is just that much greater
envelope of “sulfa” powder. If he is wounded, he takes the ' “Don’t know,” came the same j °“-
1 when the next day’s reports the
pills internally. The piwder is dusted over his wound. When answer.
I loss of a battle.
he is carried to the field hospital, even though it may be “What did the corporal of the I ■
The good soldier knows that in
TURI CHANNELS
war he must accept the good and
t wenty-four hours later, that wound is clean. No further cell, guard tell you?” usked the OD. i 4oe Dogface was pouring
destruction occurs. At Pearl Harbor, where the “sulfa” drug ‘He said. ’Watch out for the OD. I,e“,t ”ut to his *ir1’ “C”-e MiUsie’ the bad. not only on the battlefield
what would I have to do to make but in the training camp, with
received its first great wartime test, 96', of the wounded re he’s a louae’ ”
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TWF TRAINFR i J'0U loVe me?" “We,l, Joe,” she equanimity. He must accept it
covered.
,un' ,
„ ,
’ ’¡replied, “If vou were a corporal without impatience and without
New Orleans. La. I you
,
,, , hold
,, my , hand, . and ...
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The “sulfa" drug is only one of the many accomplish-1
could
if you 1____
complacency,
but with confidence.
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ments of modern medicine put to excellent use by our Medi-|
I were a sergeant, you could put 1 This, individually, is not an easy
hear what happened to:
your arms around me. and if you thing to do. It is only by training,
cal Corps. In many cases, shock suffered by the wounded i Mr. Didja
Five-by-Five ’ Seems he mar-
get to be a staff-sergeant, well by constant and consistent self dis-
can cause more harm than the actual injury itself. But due
li<s Two-by-Four and now
1 you might even kiss me.”
* cipline that a soldier accepts this
to lhe healing qualities of blood plasma, shock can be sue- C„,
’
they’re having children, One-by-l
Joe
started
for
the
door.
”
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1 way of life automatically.
eesxfully counteracted. Members of the Medical Field Service One.
; be hack, Maisie. I'm going to ap-1 This does tiot mean that he
carry a |>ortable plasma kit on to the battlefield and can give i
should lose all initiative and re-
I ply for OCS!”
a wounded soldier an immediate life saving transfusion. There DEFINITION: Hula dancer: lust
From THE COMMUNIQUE.' sourcefuless. It means that while
is no telling how many live.“ have already been saved and 11 shake in the grass.
Louisiana. he is learning how to fight, he
should also know WHY he is fight
how many more will be saved because there was enough •
ing.
The
deaf
man
sitting
in
the
blosl plasma . . . on time.
There is a lot of the military
front
pew
spied
a
new
man
in
the
> ou who have given your blood to a blood bank almost ward«. Mass., will never get chatty
that is confusing eVen to those with
1 pulpet chair.
surely have saved a life. And there is a great need for addi-j again. The last time he said to the
"W ha’s that?" he asked a fellow years and years of service, but
tional quantities of blood plasma. The American Red Cross man who spelled out his name in i worshiper
there is one axiom that every sol
behind him.
is coo|M>rating with our armed forces in a campaign for blood asking for mail, “Okay. bud. And "New deacon." was the reply. dier from private to general must
| what’s that uniform, Canadian or ’
learn and learn well—that all
donors. If you are physically able, give your blood to save | British?”
“New Denier, eh?” the deaf one army regulations are primarily in
the life of a wounded sokliei. Get in touch with you/ local The man replied. “British.”
scowled.
tended to be for the best interests
Blood I k»nor Center today. Our men are willing to die for their And the postal clerk said, “Not "No, no." his informer continued, of the largest number of men.
country. But no life must be lost that might have been had. mot bad. what’s the junk on “I said he's the son of a bishop.”
the shoulder for?”
"Yep. yep. yep." said the deaf
saved!
And the man said. “For majors, one. nodding in agreement. “They sailors in garrison and port, must
1 here is no greater uplift to the morale of a man in battle bud.
seem mighty strange.
”
they allare.”
New York is strange. No doubt
than the knowledge that should he fall wounded, all that And the clerk said.. “Yess-s-s- all are. From
THE COMMUNIQUE.
it would be impossible for these
medical science knows is waiting to help him. He* will be SIR!”’
Louisiana. men from foreign parts to convey
taken swiftly by jeep ambulance or litter to the Battalion
From THE ARMODIER.
Arkansas.. Voice of a luscious blonde in a the strangeness of it. Although no
Ai«t or Collecting Station. If further treatment is needed,
city can be so well informed about
darkened air-raid shelter. "Hey.
he will 1 h > moved to a clearing station or to an evacuation
Then there’s the one about the, take your hands off my knee! No. all that is taking place, every-
hospital. Then he may lie flown by air ambulance to a hospital elevator operator who has told not you. YOU!”
where, the war still seems ur.real
far removed from the scene of battle.
and far away.
Long before the United States
Our medical men are using all their expert knowledge to jiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiimiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiii
was
fully in it this war was a huge
heal our wound«*!. Day alter day. in our medical laboratories,
OF AN
show to New York and that im
studies are being made to further safeguard the lives of our
pression remains today. Earlier
OI.D-TIMER
fighting men. On the battiefronts, doctors operate skillfully
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By Henry Beckett
: it consisted of movies and broad
while shells fly screaming above. Calm, in the face of any
casts and newspaper stories and
danger, they go about their life-giving work. All through the Aimiiiiiiiiiniiiiiimmiiiiimiiimiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimimiiimimiiiiiit pictures about refugees on incom
in or near the city, have been see ing ships. Now the refugees have
history of this nation s war years, the men of our Army j Governors Island, New
Every evening free tie!
ing plays and the latest movies anil stopped coming by the shipload and
Medical Corps have prove«! themselves true soldier« under passed out from desks in 1
they exchange opinions about their instead the city has the spectacle of
tire. Many have given their lives, in dangerous experiments. Avenue headquarter- of th
relative merits. You hear some pun thousands of men in uniform.
And on th«* battlefield . . . so vve may live
Service Organizations, a
gent and sophisticated remarks.
They throng the railway termin
I nv
Yes. today our wounded live, and our Medical Corps is before the appointed tinn
als, the streets, and places of pub
A
the <1 ramatic
ma
criticism is | lic assembly. Such a pianist as
using all its skill and knowledge to see to it that they will begins to form at the hr
handsome stairs.
enteri ining. The real in- i Vladimir Horowitz gives a concert
As the minutes pass, the line
in the tii cket line is in what at Carnegie Hall and the house i*
lengthens, extending do >wn the
men don’ t say, alxiut them- sold out. except for the stage,
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stairs and through two ion
and their experiences, which is full of men of the services,
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and then doubling back
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d with tl he fellows who have admitted free. But the uniform* <•*
<
reaches the street door
ighting the battle of New all of these men are pressed and
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RANGE FINDER. nights there is a line outsid
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York month 1 after month are their shoes are shined and nothing
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Califor ia. sidewalk.
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who h< a
been in tight about them suggests the pain ana
Some men. aping laivor Zakar spot«, They u I
ng to various the grimness of war.
Hint i t» vi .I fn t n oirs
I.ITTI F BROTHER’
ian of Camp Adair, bring
a rime« and navr of the United
Making the rounds, the OD came with them and read while they iVHit. Nations « They talk the least
Fathet
"What were v-u pis!
•nd
Plenty of Rubber!
that kid talking aliout on th,' porch upon a rookie on guard duty. He Others talk, and the con reflation probable y think the m
After all
Marceline. Mo. (UNS)—A youn<
asked
the
rookie.
“
What
is
General
htst night?"
I is like no other talk in tl e armed that they I have seen and heard, and d j fello w in city court was charge*!
Daughter: "Oh. we were just Order No (J?”
I forces. Mainly, It consist- of dra- all that they have been through, with passing worthless checks ano
“Don't know." replied the rookie. matic criticism Night nf'
talking about our kith and kin."
the 1 r of New York City, includ- »as fined $17.91 He handed the
Little brother: "I’ll «ay they
The OD tried again. "What 1« these men of the service« stat
in< the routine of th< roltirvrs and judge a check. It bounced, tee-
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