Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1918 — PLANES TO CARRY WOUNDED [ARTICLE]

PLANES TO CARRY WOUNDED

Physician and Corporal Declare This Form of Transport Superior to Ambulances. # London. —Tests recently made on the western front with an airplane fitted with two stretchers for carrying wounded have proved highly satisfactory. No wounded were carried during the tests, but Doctor Chassaing of the army medical service and Corporal Tetu represented wounded passengers during* a twelve-minute flight, the equivalent of a fifteen-mile journey. Both the physician and the corporal declared that this form of transport is far superior to an ambulance, of which both have vivid recollections, having been wounded two years ago. Doctor Chassaing, who removed a muffler from his head and unfastened straps during the flight, expressed the' opinion that there would be no unnecessary pain to a wounded passenger, because the equilibrium of the airplane is so perfect. The machine was constructed by the aeronautic service of the army, vldch hopes to use this form of transpor* for the severely wounded.