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Show IN EMERGENCY SOLDIER ACTS Glendale, Cali. The remarkab-is remarkab-is a story of how a young Seventh day Adventist Medical Corpsman cut a fellow soldier's throat, not to tke but to save his life, was related recently by members of the U. S. Army. This Associated Press dispatch was given wide publicity, and was received with, great interest by members of the War Service Commission. Seventh day Adventist organization who direct the medical pre-war training train-ing for youthful! members of that church. The heros of the stroy. Pvt. Duane N. Kinman, of College Place, Washington, was a student of Walla Walla College in 1941. He took the prescribed course of study and was later inducted Into In-to the Army. Somewhere in Europe Eur-ope with the Third Army, Pvt. Kinman found a rifleman with a sharpel wound trough his neck thrashing about on the ground, with his face turning blue froom lack of oxygen. Realizing the wound in some way halted breathing, breath-ing, Kinman knew the only way to save him was to open the windpipe wind-pipe below the wound and keep it open so that air could get into the lungs. With a jacknife, with no anesthetic, and with motar and gunfire splattering all around, Kinman made an incision, cut the proper vertical incision and then inserted the soldier's fountain pen to keep the incision open. Lt. Edward Ed-ward M. Eberling, a platoon lead, er from Lincoln, Nebraska, assis. ted Kinman by holding the patient down. After breathing had been restored, he helped the wounded man to a tank which took him to the aid station. There it was found the only additional treatment needed was the insertion of a 'proper tracheotomy tube to keep the wound open. |
