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Lieut. Colonel Evans F. Carlson, gaunt, hard-bitten leader of Carlson's Marine Raiders, just back from Saipan's front line, where he was drilled in the arm and leg by Jap bullets, was visited at a San Diego hospital by Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and their eldest son, Colonel James Roosevelt. Said Carlson elsewhere: "I received my first Purple Heart for wounds in action during World War I, in France. If I can just keep them spaced this far apart I'll be all right...
...bombs which fell on Pearl Harbor caught the U.S. with only two hospital ships to its name. By this year's end it will have 24. TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod described one of them in highly graphic detail in this cable from Saipan...
This week when I was aboard the Solace Dr. Richmond Beck of Huntington, Long Island, a psychiatrist, was the embarkation officer. It was 7 o'clock in the evening and the Solace was receiving her second shipload of Saipan wounded...
...Solace has built-in beds for 480 wounded men. In emergencies, as at Saipan, additional cots and sofas can be put up and some ship's personnel can be routed out of their beds onto the decks to make room for about 100 more...
Chicken and Ice Cream. In a battle like Saipan, where casualties are heavy, hospital ships cannot evacuate more than 20 or 30% of the wounded. The rest, except for the driblet evacuated by air, return to rear areas aboard transports, which are usually crowded and cannot hope to have the exceptional facilities of a hospital ship...