MED STUDENTS VIEW EXHIBITS

Several outdoor demonstrations on warfare in the field were given to the students at the Medical School during June and July in connection with their regular training program.

Lt. Col. P. F. Mahoney, Chemical Warfare Officer, First Service Command, and Capt. Harry Levine, Chemical Warfare Officer, Boston Harbor Defense, were in charge of the first demonstration. With Chemical Warfare as the subject, a complete presentation was given including gas mask drill, gas chamber exercise, identification of gases, chemical land mines, decontamination, smoke, and incendiaries.

"Combat Rations and Field Rationing Procedure" provided a title for another demonstration, and a meal for the students, as Major John W. Brower, Commandant of the Cooks and Bakers School, displayed samples of A, B, C, D, K, Mountain, Jungle, Bail-out, and Life-raft rations. Major Brower and his assistant, Lt. H. C. Gleve, also showed many types of dehydrated foods. Sgt. Edward Mortimer's field kitchen truck supplied, as a concluding feature, a complete supper for all students, which was enjoyed by all, despite Major Brower's announcement that it had been made entirely from dehydrated foods.

Other demonstrations in the series included one on the equipment, personnel, setting-up, and operation of a Battalion Aid Station by Capt. Allan Lerner, Surgeon, of the 241st Coast Artillery, and a lecture on types of military motors, motor maintenance, tactical motor marches, and motor discipline by Capt. Bennie Hill, Motor Officer from Ft. Devens. On successive Saturdays, ending tomorrow, one-third of the students have proceeded to Ft. Devens by motor march for a field day at that Post, and a tour to observe the field sanitary demonstration area, infiltration course, infantry weapons, firing, booby traps, the station hospital, and the reconditioning center.

Future demonstrations have been planned to cover the subjects of "Medical Supply in Combat," "Aviation Medical Examination," "Penicillin Therapy in the Army," and others.