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plasma, blood and sulfonimide therapy, and the institution of surgical units working right up behind the lines, give the casualty a wonderful chance of pulling through. Modern warfare does kill more men outright on the battlefield than ever before --- but of those who manage to survive the first hours and can get into the handsof the medical department -- only 3-4% die.

from the fact that we are not being given a hospital, I suspect that we won't remain here after all. my bet is that we'll follow the newer conquests as soon as the situation there is secure enough to permit the establishment of a hospital unit such as ours. however, as the battlefront gets nearer to tokyo it also gets nearer to san francisco-- and the more world I can get to see in the meanwhile, the better I like it. and, after all, what's new guinea got that new britain hasn't.

Beard's Republic is just out-- and you won't get any cheaper editions -- - that sortof thing is done only after a book has sold it self out [inserted by hand] after a few years. I would like another favor --- a subscription to TIME magazine. Please write to them at 330 East 22nd St, Chicago, 16, Ill --- include $3.50 and tell the to send their PONY EDITION to my address. It is sent first class mail weekly so that it should come with a fair xxx regularity. It's the only I can get all that news which never gets here in any othe manner

[inserted by hand] Your son, Mervyn Included is a copy of the paper which we get here daily.