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Show A DEBT THAT CAN'T BE PAID A characteristic of the jungle fighting in the Southwes Pacific is the hith proportion of nonfatal wounds. Japanesi snipers fortunately are poor shots. Equally fortunately fo our men in that area, there are plenty of highly trained medical med-ical men to care for wounds immediately. If it were not, fo1 this on the spot medical service, the horror of infection am' death would become almost unbearable. Reporting on th Army doctors, a news dispatch from Munda states: "It i Army doctors, a news dispatch from Munda staatcs : "It i: a heart-warming experience to watch the young surgeons working night and day, ministering to the wounded Americans Amer-icans in the gloomy depths of the New Georgia jungle. The main responsibility for saving lives rests with them .... It has been the aim of the medical corps in this campaign to give very wounded man preliminary threatmcnt within aN few minutes after he was hit . . . The Corps does its, job with the bullets and shapnel still flying." These arc the same doctors that a year or so age were striving to build careers for themselves at home. Most of them have families and all of them spent years of study and privation preparing to practice medicine. They go to battle with a wealth of knowledge and the best training of the medical med-ical profession. The parents, wives and sweethearts of the men in service owe the military doctors a debt of gratitude they never can repay. |