USED JACK-KNIFE, FOUNTAIN PEN IN BATTLEFIELD OP.
LONDON, November 30.
With mortar shells whining overhead, an amateur surgeon performed one of the most delicate operations, tracheatomy (incision in the windpipe) with onijr a jack knife and a fountain pen, on the battlefield near Metz, state?, Reuter’s correspondent with the American 3rd Army. A rifleman was hit in the ‘throat by a mortar-shell and a fragment was suffocating him. Private Kinman, aged 19, medical aid man, from Washington, with a helper, crawled through a barrage to the rifleman. Kinman, with a jack knife, cut into the throat, avoiding the jugular vein. He made a one-and-a-half inch incision in the windpipe below the wound, then took a fountain pen from the wounded man and putting the rounded end in the windpipe incision told him • "keep it there and you’ll be 0.K.” A passing tank took the rifleman to the rear where the pen was removed and a tracheatomy tube inserted.
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Northern Advocate, 1 December 1944, Page 7
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