"Each man must have a breaking point." On Guadalcanal many a man came close to that realization.
Last week the mental suffering on Guadalcanal was described to the American Psychiatric Association in Detroit by Lieut. Commander Edwin R. Smith of the Naval Hospital at Mare Island, Calif. In the frankest statement on war's psychiatric casualties yet passed by the Army or Navy, he discussed "a group neurosis that has not been seen before and may never be seen again." The neurosis occurs in steady men who have been subjected to prolonged warfare without rest...
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