beaches where they shouldn't be because they were all mined and there a bunch
 of people got killed. And there we served you could say in the front line at that
 time. But ordinarily we were usually anywhere from ten to twenty miles down in
 front. That was our position usually. But what you said, but we served as medics
 were, let's say, these about 400 men. We were medics for at least 400 men. For
 anything that happened to them. We were the two MDs plus our eight person
 team took care of them. So every morning the patients would come in for
 whatever they had. But we were always open to treat venereal disease. We were
 always open. We always had, so anytime anybody wanted to come in for
 prevention after a sexual relations we were always open for that kind of service.

Q.: So was it, at any time was it difficult where you had to, was it difficult for you to
 bring all that you'd learned into action, were you under any certain pressure or...
A.: You know the main, well, the one incident that we, that I'd mentioned was that
 three fellows had gone swimming on the beach and they tripped a mine and all
 three of them were hit but one of them could come back. And we were... now
 that was the landing because then somebody, while we were treating these guys,
 somebody tripped another one and eleven more men were sent down. So now we
 had only the other medic and I were mobile. We had thirteen that were down.
 And we had to send in for some more help and signal to get in some more help to
 get these people out of there.

Q.: Was it difficult for you? After learning all that you had in training and going...
A.: No, it really wasn't because it was fairly simple well, except for the people who
 were dead. But the, what we did was throw a bandage over their wounds and
 gave them a shot of morphine. That essentially was the first aid then. We sent
 them into where they were picked up and brought to a kind of a hospital like
 what's the hospital in M.A.S.H.? Remember the M.A.S.H. series... it was on
 television. It's a famous t.v. series.

Q.: I remember the series.
A.: They were sent, brought into a M.A.S.H. hospital,

Q.: Was there any process you went through when you decided which patients you
 would see first? If one was more critical than the other?
A.: No, that's a good point, a very good point now that you mentioned it. As a matter
 of fact you had to make a quick assessment of who wasn't going to make it. And
 who was.

Q.: Was that difficult?
A.: In order to do what you simply did was, well we had thirteen people down and
 two medics and so what we honestly just went to the nearest one who was going
 to make it and then the next one and the next one and the next one. That's what it
 amounted to. But again, you know, even under those circumstances there was no



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