Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-27 | Page 1 | 50 Operations Fail to Save Wounded Vet

50 OPERATIONS FAIL TO SAVE mm vet Fourteen Ribs Removed in Taking Out 18 Machine Gun Bullets CATAWISSA, Pciin.. June 27. Herbert McCarty. 28 a veteran of the Seventy-ninth division lost a four year flghr for life after undergoing nearly fifty operations to overcome wounds he. had suffered a few days before the armistice, when his body was riddled with bullets from a ma-i ma-i him- gun of a German airplane. Mc-dirty Mc-dirty had been in hospitals almost continuously since he was wounded. j Twenty-four of his operations were' major ones, and 2 4 others were classed class-ed by surgeons SS minor. Eighteen machine gun bullets had been taken from his body and he carried two, Brawn into his Jugular voln to his death. In the operations H ribs had' been entirely removed, a portion of' one shoulder blade and a collarbone taken out. j His case is said by specialists to to' one of the most remarkable In Am-' erican surgery. Until two months, ago he bad recovered sufficiently to! leave the hospital for short periodi. McCarthy had been cited for extreme ex-treme bravery. his citation stating he was dragginc bodies of hl9 i-om-radei back from exposed positions w hoSi ounded.