European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse H. Newberry watches at patient uh1b. Craft accommodates three litter patients. Pilot lit it Joe r. Fulghum takes off. Rapid flights have been credited with saving Many lives that would have been lost. Light first Aid. From medic sp5 Alton c. Pale teds toward the Graf dispensary. Corpsmen Lake Over at the dispensary where simulated patient pfc Ronald a. Cimorelli is said to have is photos by Bob Milnes missions into dispensaries at , Amburg and Al lock and into the 2lh Sta Hosp at an the join Sla Llop in Nuernberg. In i no Mure than a half hour to Nuernberg by helicopter and it lakes an hour and a half by ambulance under favourable conditions. Speed and Comfort Are the principal advantages of the helicopter. Webb said. He listed the primary missions of the platoon us evacuating injured sick and wounded and carrying medical person Nel doctors and medics and whole blood and medical supplies to the scene of an Accident. Although the service is designated for military and dependents the platoon May secure permission to evacuate any one in a life and death situation. Nurses accompany flights carrying obstetrical cases and parents Are permit Ted to accompany flights transporting injured children. The u1i1b fun handle three litter patients or six ambulatory pint no. A comfortable and speedy aircraft i will cruise at 90 knots the army medical service had a hand in its de of its proximity to the Craft Woehr firing ranges the 26th Sla Llop on Grafin Wocher Post is the most frequent recipient of training casualties. A Range control hot line connecting the Hospital the sri platoon military police. Hie i Field Ami in firing stations permits an immediate shutdown of ranges in the event of an allows a helicopter to head to the scene of the acrid i ii via the shortest route without far of being hit. He Emise we re hit firs Ineila Al fat Lilly in the urea we get a Imit at in to or ill patients Here. Said Cap sell Harvey a dec tier at the Isth Sla Llsup. The Lime Factor alone is immense Yini Jor Hiil. It allows us id Sci our work better because we can rely pm the Heli copter to get the patients to Nuernberg Hospital for More extensive treatment when All 3rd platoon pilots Are members of the medical service corps. Crews consist of a Pilot medical Hll indent and Crew chief. When possible a Copilot accompanies flights. A 3rd platoon medic sp5 Alton has been awarded the army medal for the kind of service which has Given air ambulance units a reputation for Devillon to , i a Ingulli la Mouth recur i it Ilion to a Soldier who had been pinned under a jeep Al the Len Heffels training
