European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Daily Magazine Laboratory technician plasma for purity by making it tit with Usa eur Goei Hli volume with a truly the use of blood in Battle by hem staff writer any a curly agent can recite a dozen instance in history where great Battles were won or lost by piecing to Gether bits of apparently innocuous in who but a military intelligence Type would attach any significance to blood As a possible Upoff to Day or the Moat awesome amphibious assault Ever launched against an expectant the massing of thousands upon thou Sands of ships and weapons for the world War Foj invasion of Normandy could hardly have been camouflaged from an Alert especially forces Only to Miles away across the English Chan but the lottery German forces didst know exactly when the allies planned to strike French an inkling published in the overseas edition of an american newsmagazine six weeks before the Channel crossing could have been a a seemingly simple item in time for april about the blood Bank of the 1st medical Laboratory stationed in the United kingdom for the big strike created the hurry of concern or military Security at this crucial the article said that a recent dry run at the blood Bank lust had been for practice but that three weeks the useful Ufa of whole blood before the the dry run will become wet Early in the surgeons and medical officers had been dubious about the value of transfusions in saving the lives of the by the time the Normandy operation was to the planning stepped up blood collections were much a part of preparations for High casualty the blood Bank Story could have been definite Giveaway to the nazis that the Channel assault was about ready Al though there Are no indications that the enemy caught the just to cover a Chance that the leak had been the lab bleeding teams were ordered to go fallout As won As the article appeared and to con december 1964 to Lune until the actual invasion was launched on june mat Gen Douglas Kendrick Usa eur makes this Dis closure in a 1100page treatise lust published by the government printing the Story is a forthright chronicle of Early frustrations and reluctance on the part of medical men to accept the idea of employing blood in surgery and treat ment of tracing the first enlistment of blood in military medicines Battle to protect the life of the american fighting Man from its anaemic beginnings in world War u to present planning for atomic Kendrick wrote the original opinion that the col Lection of blood and the separation of plasma were As simple As mixing a cocktail promptly proved there were Many mistakes made in he blood and plasma program during participation in the but far More would have been made without the Talala Derror experiences of the Blond Tor Britain protect started at new York City hospitals in june in prior to involvement in the a Hinnd transfusion was a heroic treatment Given to a falling patient Only As a last Kendrick Points out at that time a colonel doing blood re search at Walter Reed army Hospital in Kendrick was assigned the task of starting a Wood collecting program and Supply capt Lloyd a it Navy medical now he developed a joint service donor pro Gram in conjunction with the american red the donor plan produced More than million pints of the lifesaving fluid for the nations armed forces in the global at the outset once the system was we had to go to each com Bat zone and actually the idea of using blood and plasma for the wounded right on the Ken who took Over the program again during the korean conflict in world War we Usa eur surgeon 8 to 11 of each 100 men who reached Forward hospitals died this number was Cut to per 100 in the second world and further reduced to per 100 in whole blood and plasma played major roles in this diminishing mortality he despite the Early hindrances and the payoff and rewards have been Kendrick 44 a no one appreciated the value of whole blood More than i for not the least of its benefits was the effect on his i Gen Leonard army surgeon in a foreword to Ken Dricks history of the blood said if any one medical achievement can be credited with saving countless lives in world War u and the fight against the communists in the far it is the prompt and Liberal use of acceptance of i concept of Liberal employment of transfusions in combat was regrettably the surgeon general pointed but the Story must be a whole blood service had been con ducted successful during the three year Ditl War in he when world War u broke out in september the British immediately put into operation a plan they worked out six months yet not until Uay did the Lake the firs Steps in a similar when America went to War in december commercial production of plasma was Only in its Early experience with combat casualties in the North african invasion a year made Clear that spite some Virtues and advantages could not Tak the place of whole by november plans were made to Supply whole blood to Forward Hospi tals in Europe by air but this was deemed both impractical and unnecessary until the first weeks of the nor Mandy the plan rejected in ims then was put into operation to Fly blood both to the stars and stapes the european and Pacific Henton its also in to understand Why the United states was so slow to grasp the implications of the use of whole blood in world War limited though that experience like my predecessors As surgeon a Caton Ive taken the position that these medical histories must be written in Complete frankness is he main not Only because a history is worthless if its not but also we must spell out the errors of the past so clearly they cannot be made 1 dont believe such Gigantic errors arc Likely to be there now is in my office a special transfusion offi cer to see that they the surgeon general the medical professions greatest Chal Lenge today in uses of whole blood for surgery lies in extending the preservation period beyond 21 Kendrick pointed to this promising methods arc being explored to make possible the rapid freezing and thawing of blood after protected storage without damage to the the Usa eur surgeon Fol John Coates said Kend Vij Ricks methodical recording of facts sets the first positive pattern by which the nations planners for disaster can organize to obtain and distribute the huge quantities of whole blood that would be needed in event of a nuclear new Usa eur Deputy edited Kundricks history of the army medical services development of preservation and transfusion Coates formerly was  of the medical service historical which has compiled a i volume record of army medicines wartime accomplish Kendricks blood program in world War is the latest in the series and incl ides an account of korean conflict the volume is available through the go at 18 a Page 11