Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1943 — Page 26

Thete can be no finer story than this — that one more boy shall live who might have died. ; For this is the story of one of the greatest victories of the war: the victory that is being wonby the men and women of the Medical Corps. In their front-line battle against death, they have reduced fatalities from wounds to the miraculous low of 3 out of every 100 cases. Today, air transport is helping them to win that battle in many ‘wonderful ways. The blood that saves a wounded man's life may have come to him through the sky. Hospital equipment, medicines and personnel accompany him into battle with the help of trans-

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But for a handful of people and equipment flown in ahead of the advance, he would not live, On a slender thread of plasma, and the skill in their bands, bis life depends,

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port planes. And a flying ambulance or hospital transport may mean

life itself to him, if he’s badly hurt. For the greatest. danger from

wounds is delay. In the Pacific area, for instance, sea and land transport of wounded from Buna to the field hospital at Port Moresby would have taken 18 days — by plane it took less than an hour, with a saving of hundreds of lives. And on the European front one evacuation hospital, constantly on the move and often under fire, established a record

of only 19 deaths out of 9,000 cases — with the help of air transport. -

Today, giant Curtiss Commando cargo planes are performing

increasingly vital tasks in this life-saving part of the war . , | and demonstrating their importance in the whole field of logistics with speed dnd flexibility in the handling of military cargoes. Out of the work of these, and all other planes of the airlines,

Troop Carrier Command and the Air Transport Command, a new

age of transportation is being born. The men and women who build America’s planes are helping to shorten the war. And they will bring to the future their skills and training — the finest in the world — as a priceless gift to the great peacetime era that lies ahead ; | LOOKTOTHE SKY, AMERICA! ~~ = . ©

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