A PICTURE STORY
The Time: 1713 (military time)
The Date: 1 August 1944
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KATHY: I don’t know that this has a place on the Mt Pleasant History site but I thought you might like to see what an old guy does in his free time . lee
Trying my computer hand at a picture story. Needs tightening but I have problems manipulating a photo with a mouse. I’ve a call in to Bill Gates for help. lee
The Headlines
The Map:
The Place: Hedgerows, near Percy, Normandy, France
The Event: “About then I heard an incoming shell. I hit
the ground face down. I do not recall
the explosion. I do remember the sharp
stabbing in my lower left rib cage. I knew I had been hit. I was terrified! I had been hit and remember thinking ”I’ve
been hit” but I’m still alive”.
Excerpted from “ The Physical and Psychic Wounding of Lt Lee R
Christensen” Can be read by Googling
the title.
The Evacuation:
The Field Hospital:
Field Surgery:
The Nurses: 
And a
Note from the Medical Staff:
Most seriously wounded means men shot through the head, lungs, bowels,
or large bone of the legs, wounds that in World War I were usually fatal.
Our basic technique is to open up a man's abdomen with an 8-inch
incision, go through his intestines and other organs carefully looking for
holes made by bullets or shell fragments. Damaged organs and bowel are removed,
the holes sewed shut and the incision closed except for a loop of bowel that
serves as a temporary outlet. Minor wounds are cleaned of damaged flesh and
packed with vaseline gauze. We do chests as well as bellies, sometimes on the
same man. We use great quantities of whole blood. We have sulfa, which we smear liberally
everywhere we can, and everybody who lives gets the new drug penicillin every
four hours..
And I lived to Celebrated this Day 70
Years After>?
The Music: Glenn Miller’s “American
Patrol”
