Within three months the 100,000 U.S. servicemen now hospitalized in Europe will have been brought home and some 90 Army general hospitals (out of 99) in Britain will be closed. As the main body of the Army Medical Corps moved toward the new main fighting front, Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and Major General Paul R. Hawley, chief surgeon of the European Theater, proudly summarized the Army's medical record in Europe. Army Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk looked hopefully to the future.
Army hospitals in Europe have treated 1,375,000 sick and wounded patients. Of the 375,000 wounded who reached the...