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Miracles of the Battlefront: Hidden Hospitals Save Lives At Battlefront. It's midnight not far from the battleline. In the darkness, ten tons of equipment are unloaded. A battered farmhouse is transformed into a usable hospital. No light escapes from masked windows. Quickly an operating room is set up ... 12 officer doctors go to work. To the tune of artillery fire, anesthetists and surgeons calmly perform their miracles. When the battleline moves ahead, the surgeons pack up and follow. Lt. General Mark W. Clark, in commending the "wonderfully fine work" performed by the medical units of the Fifth Army after the landing at Salerno said, "The first hospital opened within 3 to 5 miles of the front lines. The next hospital began to function the following day still closer and under the most difficult conditions. Many of those who survived would never have reached a hospital alive had the hospitals been located at normal distance from the front." ..... 1944 E. R. Squibb & Son Ad, A5088.