Medicine: Aero-Medicine

> After future battles like Midway and the Solomons, Navy ambulance planes will scout the seas for hundreds of miles in search of casualties.

>The Army is now training two squadrons of huge, long-distance hospital planes. These planes will be assisted by another squadron of lighter air ambulances which will whisk wounded soldiers away from points close to the front lines to points where they can be shifted to the larger planes. Purpose: to assure U.S. soldiers of treatment at a fully equipped hospital during the precious first hours after severe injury, when...

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