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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Army Captain Quentin Roosevelt, 24, youngest son of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; and American Red Cross Worker Frances Webb, 26, of Kansas City and Smith College ('38); in Blandford, England. Butterfly-Collector Roosevelt collected the Silver Star and a shell fragment with the field artillery in North Africa. His best man: his father...
...Army had not broken the entire line, but it had burst more than one seam. It was marching into a fragment of Poland, toward Rumania, toward the Baltic States. The border of Germany proper, at its nearest, still lay 340 miles across the buffer lands. But of pre-1939 Russia the Wehrmacht now held a slipping grasp on approximately 200,000 square miles; once it was master of 527,000 square miles of Russia...
...hospital bed in Cairo last week Lieut. Colonel Vladimir Dedier of the Partisans gave some old friends among the correspondents later news of his wife. Major Olga Dedier of the Medical Corps had been hit in the left shoulder by a bomb fragment during an engagement on Bosnia's Green Mountain last June. Marshal Tito was wounded that day, too, and the Germans almost surrounded and annihilated four of his best divisions. Vladimir saw Olga fall and ran to pull her into a ditch, out of reach of the Stukas...
Said an I.N.S. dispatch: "A shell fragment splintered his skull through the steel helmet he was wearing. He was rushed to an aid station and then to hospital, where he was operated on immediately. Eleven pieces of bone and nine pieces of brain tissue were successfully removed." Said Army medical authorities: Tregaskis is "coming along satisfactorily," will take at least six months to recover...
...stereo-fluoroscope which gives a three-dimensional view of the body's interior. With the Leishman device, a surgeon can look into a wounded soldier, twiddle some knobs until he sees what he is looking for, insert a slim, sterilized needle straight to an embedded bullet or shell fragment. Later the metal can be removed cleanly without extra probing and blood loss, simply by following the needle. In fracture cases, the surgeon can watch the bones slip into place, make sure they are in perfect position...