Medical Advances Improve Soldier Survival Rates In War
Medical science advances including sulfa drugs blood plasma and better mobile units have cut death rates. Wounded men receive rapid first aid from kits to field ambulances then to mobile surgical units with evac hospitals and eventual return to duty or discharge. Naval and Marine care mirror army methods with sick bays base hospitals and reconditioning programs to ready veterans for civilian life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Kirk
U. S. Army
Navy
Marine Field
Army
Army Medical Department
Victory Gardens
United States
Tropics
South Seas
Cream Developed by Navy Medical Corps Protects Skin From Flash Burns
Navy researchers perfected a skin cream that guards against flash burns, a major battle hazard. The gray cream, about an ounce and a half for face neck and hands, requires only light application and can be worn under clothing for protection. Lieut. Com. Gordon B Fauley heads the lab project that developed the cream.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Medical Corps
Naval
Gordon B. Fauley
Washington Digest on Inflation Fears Hit Congress
Washington column notes inflation fears grip lawmakers as anti subsidy foes press for policy limits. It cites Treasury warnings, OPA powers, and a Taft compromise while outlining postwar rail and air travel plans to lower costs, improve service, and simplify rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capitol
House
Senate
Congress
Commodity Credit Corporation
Taft
Treasury
Morgenthau
Hudson
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Fourth War Loan drive set for January to February 1944
Bankhage notes the Fourth War Loan will run January 18 to February 15, 1944. Frau Gertrud Scholtz-Klink tours Germany and Austria urging women to build morale and match male production. The torpedo plane traces to Rear Admiral Bradley Allen Fiske in 1911. Korea defeats the Japanese in war three times, despite claims of Japan’s invincibility.
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Gertrud Scholtz-Klink
Germany
Austria
Bradley Allen Fiske
Philippines
Korea
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Dorothy Holstein
Douglas Strater
Palermo
Sicily
U. S
Mediterranean
George Fry
Marine Corps
Washington Digest
Baukhage
WNU Service
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
Treasury Department
Daniel
Washington
Skyways
Bankhage
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Chicago
Pazo
Boemer
Australia
Ane
Vicki Vapouin
Thas
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