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CASUALTIES

SOME BOYS REALLY GOT HURT
">ON STRETCHERS AT LAKE CHARLES STATION, CASUALTIES FROM 43RD EVACUATION HOSPITAL WAIT FOR TRAIN TO TAKE THEM TO NEW ORLEANS FIELD HOSPITAL Photo Credit: Dmitri Kessel/Ralph Morse/TIMEPIX
The only great fact of war missing in maneuvers is fear of death. Guns shoot banks. Planes bomb trucks with flour bags. Prisoners are set free unhurt.
But there are real casualties. Boys on stretchers (above) have honest-to-God cases of strained backs, fractured knees, food poisoning Below, in an evacuation hospital, Army surgeons are performing a real operation for appendicitis. On opposite page, Private Le Roy Beyer looks out from an Army ambulance after the rim of a tire lie was changing hit him in the head.
IN ARMY HOSPITAL AT JONESBORO, SURGEONS PERFORM EMERGENCY APPENDECTOMY. DURING MANEUVERS, HOSPITALS AVERAGE 100-200 SICK AND INJURED SOLDIERS A DAY Photo Credit: Dmitri Kessel/Ralph Morse/TIMEPIXBefore fighting started, the Army expected that, in two weeks some 40,000 soldiers would be hospitalized. It also expected 136 deaths. When, therefore, at the end of the first week of war 17 soldiers had been killed (seven by motor accidents, one by suicide, two by drowning, two by disease, five by airplanes), the Army was relieved.

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