Show J 1 I x rul V portable hosp hospitals atals follow U S troops through jungle J united states army medical detachments care for the wounded in in portable dispensaries dispensa ries and base hospitals amidst the background of jungle warfare in the south pacific so trained are the medical personnel to cope with jungle underbrush and difficult terrain that soldiers wounded in action can be given first aid frequently within ten minutes major operations are often performed within thirty minutes of the casualty first aid stations are found within 50 to yards of the foremost lighting fighting lines and litter M bearers dart in and out of the underbrush picking up the wounded and carrying them to battalion first farst aid stations jungle fighting knows no curfew and twenty four hours of the day doctors with trained hel helpers pers are on duty at these advance first aid stations in picture a at top two members of 01 a medical detachment ready their portable hospital equipment for movement up to the front the detachment is trained to stand up under long marches over the roughest terrain as shown in in picture above here stretchers are being used to portage the supplies patients leave the portable hospitals the following day and are carried on titters litters to clearing stations some three or four miles further to the rear these field hospitals are remarkably complete almost every type of wound or jungle disease can be bc treated here in picture at left ala major jor J 1 W guerin of chicago and capt edmund 11 schweitzer of peoria ill III prepare themselves for surgery 1 4 v r X Y 1 1 1 0 4 TX T X A two sergeants and a captain remove a bandage from a patients leg in pation pre for an operation W R Z men brought in front the field are placed in a ward tent still on litters which are supported by logs to make for store comfortable resting the men are removal by litter carriers to clearing station hospitals I 1 re making their orvn paths through the jungle to set up portable hos petals officers and enlisted men are led by maj J duskas of erie pa |