MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
UNITED STATES ARMY
IN WORLD WAR II
GENERAL SURGERY
Volume II
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, UNITED STATES ARMY
SURGERY IN WORLD WAR II
Volume II
GENERAL SURGERY
Editor in Chief
Colonel JOHN BOYD COATES, JR., MC
Editor for General Surgery
MICHAEL E. DEBAKEY, M. D.
Associate Editors
W. PHILIP GIDDINGS, M. D.
ELIZABETH M. MCFETRIDGE, M. A.
OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
WASHINGTON, D. C., 1955
SURGERY IN WORLD WAR II
Prepared under the direction of
MAJOR GENERAL S. B. HAYS
The Surgeon General, United States Army
Historical Unit, Army Medical Service
Colonel John Boyd Coates, Jr., MC, Director
Major I. H. Ahlfeld, MSC, Executive Officer
Captain J. K. Arima, MSC, Special Projects Officer
Donald O. Wagner, Ph. D., Chief, Historians Branch
Willa B. Dial, Chief, Editorial Branch
Josephine P. Kyle, Chief, Archives and Research Branch
Hazel G. Hine, Chief, Administrative Branch
Rita Nelson, Publications Editor
Advisory Editorial Board
Michael E. DeBakey, M. D., Chairman
Frank B. Berry, M. D.
Brian Blades, M. D.
J. Barrett Brown, M. D.
Sterling Bunnell, M. D.
Norton Canfield, M. D.
B. Noland Carter, M. D.
Edward D. Churchill, M. D.
Mather Cleveland, M. D.
Daniel C. Elkin, M. D.
John B. Flick, M. D.
Frank Glenn, M. D.
M. Elliott Randolph, M. D.
Isidor S. Ravdin, M. D.
Alfred R. Shands, Jr., M. D.
Howard E. Snyder, M. D.
R. Glen Spurling, M. D.
Barnes Woodhall, M. D.
Robert M. Zollinger, M. D.
Colonel Joseph R. Shaeffer, MC (`h ab` cae! bb
