CARE OF WOUNDED

Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22790, 14 January 1944, Page 6

CARE OF WOUNDED

Praise For Orderlies Too little is known of the work of American medical orderlies on the transport planes in New Guinea, writes Jack Scarlett, a New Guinea correspondent of the “Sydney Morning Herald.” I saw an example of their work when the plane in which we ■were flying to Port Moresby was buffeted by heavy weather and blown off its course for more than an hour. There were 13 Australian soldiers on board all suffering from malaria. Three were stretcher cases—one delirious with malaria of the brain. Sergeant H. Patnaude, of Kankakee (Illinois), and Sergeant E. Worley, of East Iron Mountain (Michigan), were the two medical orde.rlies in the plane. They have each made countless trips with sick Australian and American troops. On their flights from Finschhafen recently they tended every type of battle casualty imaginable. All through the heavy rainstorm, while the plane staggered and bumped over the ranges, Sergeant Worley continued to stand by the stretcher of the Digger suffering from malaria of the brain. Sergeant Patnaude gave each man sedatives and blanketed those who were running high fevers. The orderlies speak lightly of their work, but they said that this flight was the worst they have had yet. Both pilots agreed.