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Show ? '-. ' .; , ' . - !y - , ; . . ' : " - ' i v , ' v7 . .- -, ' i c- ; f ' " J V;.-; !7rH--' - Portable Hospitals Follow U. S. Troops Through Jungle United States army medical detachments care for the wounded in portable dispensaries and base hospitals amidst the background of jungle warfare in the South Pacific. So trained are the medical personnel to cope with jungle underbrush under-brush 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 100 yards of the foremost fighting lines, and litter bearers dart in and out of the underbrush picking up the wounded, and carrying them to battalion first aid stations. sta-tions. Jungle fighting knows no curfew, and twenty-four hours of the day doctors with trained helpers are on duty at these first aid stations. In picture at top two members of a medical detachment ready their portable hospital equipment for movement up to the front. t ' v. 5 ' I v 4 i J The detachment is trained to stand up under long marches over the roughest terrain, as shown in picture above. Here stretchers are being used to portage the supplies. Patients leave the portable hospitals hos-pitals the following day and are carried on litters to clearing stations, sta-tions, some three or four miles further to the rear. These hospitals hos-pitals are very complete. Almost every type of wound or jungle disease can be treated. In picture at left Ma jor . W . Guerin of Chicago, and Capt. Edmund Ed-mund II. Schweitzer of Peoria,! II., prepare themselves for surgery. I ' : y ' - J I - " ' ' " $ I ' I V " ' I , ' . . ." V V J ,1 s - i y - V v r 4 hi -' J I .. :v 4- -r;v . v- i J V ' f fr - r wdf .- - I tJ L f -- v 7i (- I Ttoo sergeants and a captain remove a bandage from a "patient's" leg in preparation for an operation. 1 i i i I-,i;Vw 't; 'V'1-v" . . - Afera brought in from the field are placed in a ward tent. Stdl on litters which are supported by logs the men are awaiting removal by litter carriers to clearing station hospitals. Making their own paths through the jungle to set up portable hospitals. The loader is Maj. J. Duskas of Erie, Pa. |