Surgeons Create Makeshift Hospital Behind Burma Front
Maj. Robert C. Page describes a five officer and eight enlisted medical unit that built a field hospital named Sick Inn in Assam near Japanese lines. The team, led by Col. Cochran, operated first aid stations, flew combat evacuations, and treated 2,000+ casualties with innovative air evacuation methods amid jungle warfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Urma
Jungle
War Department
Garter
Philip Cochran
Air Com
Burma
Robert C. Page
New York City
Air Sur
David N. W. Grant
U. S. Army
Air Ando
Page
United States
Air Rgeon
Washington, D. C
Air Commando
Assam
el Cochran
Major Page
Peter A. Reierson
Moscow
Daho
Weldon O. Murphy
Marino
Texas
Ain C. Tulloch
Ogdensburg
New York
Cortez F. Enloe
Island
Leon S. Palmatier
Johnson City
Walter Reed General Hospital
Norman W. Wach
Hayes Center
Nebraska
Lloyd F. McClain
Kansas City
Karl K. Schmidt
Cleveland
Ohio
Tech
Edmund LaFortune
East Jaffrey
Robert J. Kendrigan
Manchester
New Hampshire
Jerry Chalupa
Taylor
Ewald Brenner
Chicago
Illinois
Washington
Cochran
General Wingate
Broadway
Piccadilly
Tlider
Enloe
Murphy
Tulloch
Kendrigan
LaFortune
Wach
Palmatier
Brenner
Air Commando Force
RAF
British Rescue Service
Army Air Corps
Dr Harold Bryant to address Flagstaff college commencement
Flagstaff June 20 Dr Harold Bryant superintendent of Grand Canyon national park will speak on Lifes essentials at commencement exercises of Flagstaff State Teachers College tonight E C Slipher will present the Percival Lowell scholarship to the senior with four years attendance and highest scholarship Tom O Bell wood acting president will award the presidents prize for greatest service A new cash prize for a woman student majoring in education was announced Commencement week began with a senior banquet last Saturday Rev David Churchman Trimble of Prescott gave the baccalaureate sermon yesterday
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flagstaff
Flagstaff State Teachers’ College
Harold Bryant
Grand Canyon National Park
E. C. Slipher
Percival Lowell
Tom O. Bellwood
David Churchman Trimble
Prescott
Irrawaddy River Navigable All Year In Burma
The Irrawaddy river in Burma remains navigable for roughly 1,000 miles year round, enabling continuous river traffic and commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irrawaddy River
Burma
Allies Pour Freight Into French Port
Allied forces stream supplies into a French beachhead in Nomandy as Liberty ships LSTs and converted liners anchor offshore. The port is crowded with troops, trucks, and salvage operations while German shelling and flak persist. signs of battle fade as 88 mm ammunition racks and intact gun positions are found in tunnels beneath the beach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nomandy
France
Cherbourg
LST
Chamber of Commerce
Jerry
London
William Brunnel
Melton Manor
Buffalo
N. Y
Army Transportation Outfit
Fewer cardinals remain as Rome occupation bites
Edward Kennedy reports the Allied occupation of Rome has reduced the college of cardinals to 42, the lowest in 144 years, with Pope Pius XII delaying new appointments during the war. It notes nationalities, locations, and the likelihood that Archbishop Spellman will be named after the conflict ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Kennedy
Vatican City
Rome
College of Cardinals
Pius XII
Europe
Vatican
Ersone
George Mundelein
Chicago
William Henry O'Connell
Boston
Dennis Cardinal Dougherty
Philadelphia
United States
United Nations
Spellman
Francis J. Spellman
New York
Pius VI
Napoleon
Paris
Benedict XV
Kellogg's All-Bran Aids Chronic Constipation Says Reader
A Charleston Missouri resident credits Kellogg's All-Bran with ending years of constipation after a year of daily intake. The ad explains the product as a non purgative, gentle regulator and recommends regular All-Bran servings and ample water for relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kellogg’s
Battle Creek
Wounded Arizonian Awarded Silver Star for Courage at Sea
P Lt Bert W Bellamy 35 USNR of Phoenix Arizona received the Silver Star Medal for attempting to quell a gasoline stowage fire on his ship while wounded by shrapnel. He moved despite injuries to the burning area and tried to trip the quick releasing gear on gasoline drums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Calif
Bert W. Bellamy
USNR
Phoenix
Ariz
11Th Naval District
Bellamy
Florence Nightingale cuts Crimean War wounded death toll
Nightingale deployed prompt care and hygienic methods to treat wounded soldiers in the Crimean War, reducing death rates from about 40 percent to roughly 2 percent through organized nursing and sanitation reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence Nightingale
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fie
Dr. Bryant
Coast Guardsman
Buddie B. Gillian
Wood Street
Tucson
Coast Guard
By Howard Cowan
Arizona
Venus
H. H
Tidmarsh Engining Company
Cardinals
Pontiff
Kellogg's All Bran User
Arizonian
Congress
WU Laa
Pacific Northwest
Brush Painters
U.S.A
U. S. Employment Service
War Manpower Commission
East Pennington
Liberty
South Tucson
Volunteer Fire Dept
Benson
44Th Street
South 6Th Avenue
Anderson Music CO
Jake
White House Dept
Ingram’s
Sunset Villa
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!