Show Injured Yank Fly to 10 Japan I TOKYO Oct 9 UP Sick UP-Sick Sick Sick and I I wounded troops from Korea ar are arc being airlifted to Japan at the rate of more than 1000 a a. week an air force spokesman said Monday In the week ending Oct OcL 6 1013 casualties were brought to Japan by air giving wounded men a smooth trip from the front lines to well-equipped well hospitals in the same time it would take a jeep to drive them over bu buny y roa roads s to a afield afield afield field hospi hospital ta 1 The wounded are arc picked up by helicopters and light planes at the front and flown to field hospitals in a minute five-minute flight The flight from Korea to Japan takes little littlemore littlemore littlemore more than an hour In combat cargo planes The trip home to the United States for those requiring long convalescence has been cut from 15 days by ship to 27 hours by air |