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Show One -Man Medical Corps on the Move I V , j?? - "''iw- i Dr. Gordon Seagrave, who was in the Harper Memorial hospital at Namkhan, Burma, when the Japanese moved in, is shown with three of his Burmese nurses in an army jeep after Dr. Seagrave had joined np with General Joseph Stilwell's Chinese army in Burma. Dr. Seagrave was in the thick of the savage fighting in this campaign, attending to wounded and operating under heart-breaking conditions. During the heal of the early fighting he worked one 24-hour stretch with but 90 minutes off, taking care of 150 casualties. The only assistance he had was from Makio, his head nurse, who handled 20 of the minor cases herself. Operating Operat-ing on a porch his work was illuminated by a burning city. |