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In Washington –
Wounded on Iwo get 14,000 pints of whole blood
GUAM (UP) – Approximately one quarter of the 15,749 Marines wounded on Iwo Jima were saved from death by some 14,000 pints of whole blood, Lt. Herbert R. Brown of Rochester, New York, said today.
Lt. Brown, who is in charge of the U.S. Navy’s whole blood distribution center here, told Marine combat correspondent Sgt. Stanley Fink of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, that 5,600 pints of whole blood were administered on Iwo beaches and foxholes. Remainder of the 14,000 pints was used on hospital ships and Marianas hospitals, Lt. Brown said.
“Patients needing 10, 16 and 18 pints of blood are not rare when wounded by such heavy weapons as were used by the Japanese on Iwo Jima,” Lt. Brown declared. “Some of the men were blown nearly in Iwo.”
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2,796 of Iwo wounded flown to Hawaii
HONOLULU, Hawaii (UP) – The Air Transport Command flew 2,796 men wounded on Iwo Jima from the Marianas to Hawaii during a record two-week period, it was disclosed by Maj. Gen. William Ord Ryan, commander of the ATC Pacific Division.
Hospital planes of the fleet made 109 trips for the evacuation between March 7 and March 20, Gen. Ryan said.
He disclosed that more than 10,000 wounded men per month are being evacuated by air from all battle areas in the Pacific.