Show Doctors I Snare Share Hardships t h With Vitt Fighters Offices e Are Crude Dugouts Or Wooden Huts Several t Decorated for Valor i Y TECHNICAL SERGEANT JIM I G LUCAS SOMEWHERE IN THE UTH PACIFIC Delayed 1 the marIne corps f World War II ill in fighting is not a hit lut and run lob Job Wherever marines mannes go ill in the Pacific their doctors o 0 wIth them Their sick II dugI J ays range from crude dug I at the front lines to ably presentable but not elaborate wooden deeper m safe terra tern E ry On Oa ryOn Guadalcanal doctors shed themselves under re e They have received avy crosses silver stars and service medals or Talor alor others have died ill in Unable to get into battle they are aresing sing the same work ork they dId at atI I Jome orne When they closed theIr offices and ft d goodby to civilian ce they Bre re ng 10 m les to the un arted Islands of the Pac fic ficA 11 A TypIcal SIck Bay U UT T P cal of the hundreds of sick s now strung over All ed ter terJI terI I torr to In the South Pacific IS that JI reefed by A A SI of Washington street V Va a graduate ol of the fill DIvers avers ty of Virg n a ool of med me meho ho aho ga gave gae e up his rus practice m mew mew ew Orleans La to enlist m in the vy nine months ago s ck bay IS enough back of actual fighting tIt it handles no battle es ese ese e are evacuated from the front es to hasp hosp talc taIs elsewhere S lob job IS the routine one of keep keep- J Jat men fit at 1St rig ng urn rum are 11 navy corps another doctor and h to 0 den The demands on their t me enough to keep them busy 15 f a day seven days a week eek ey are the only doctors m in a corn com ty of marines marmes WIth a total pop lion greater than that of many m the United States a marine marme IS no marine marme at r F sergeants know from past peace nence that It IS best to be bethan bethan than sorry better to send a aD ao o D up for examination m in case of oft oft t Average 7 Patients a Day sIck bay like lie others averages between 75 pat a day Only a percentage of them are sent to hos hosl A large on for a second or th rd treat t The b g maJority are han hanon on the spot and marines marmes who otherwise mIght have been d for days and weeks remain on the Job ready ready for actIon when hen It comes When It first was shed this suck SIck bay ed a large field tent No Now It IS located In a large open shack 60 feet long and 25 feet wIde and screened for protectIon against fues flies and nd Always In demand IS the camp dent st L George W Fry Wheaton Ill III who ho has appointments scheduled every 30 minutes from 7 a m to 5 p m 17 days m ad advance advance vance As at the fight ng front doctors InSISt that theIr corpsmen are the thereal real heroes Bo Boys s who untIl their enlistment had only a speaking ac acqua acqua qua with medIc medicine me they have qUIetly effic learned the ha ba bas has s c facts of the professIOn offer m invaluable assIstance to doctors by rehe mg them of ng rou routine tine and handle minor deta details s A corpsman IS on duty 24 hours a aday aday day frequently takes care of sen senous senous ous cases I tnt nt 1 a doctor can arrive Heroes of a D Different lerent Sort No heroes m in the accepted sense of the word these doctors have ha kept marines ready to h t the Jap when whenever whenever ever m think It best The doctors frequently yoke Joke among themselves about themselves feel ashamed that they have not been called up where the bullets fly Marine Marme officers see the decrease In the number of man days lost m in insist they are heroes of a d different lerent sort Perhaps because of them CIVIl CIVIlIan ran Ian pat eats who have gIVen their fan faIT ly doctors to the war WIll feel leel the loss a little less keenly |