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The Camas Hot Springs Exchange
Hot Springs, Camas, Sanders County, Montana
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Staff Sergeant John Schuster, an infantryman from Stelton, New Jersey, describes being wounded by a German bomb in a Normandy field during the advance to St. Lo, saved by blood plasma and transfusions from dedicated Army nurses.
Merged-components note: Image overlaps with the soldier testimonial story 'I'd Have Been a Goner'.
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STAFF SERGEANT JOHN SCHUSTER, infantryman from Stelton, New Jersey
" 'Hit the ditch, boys; here come the Jerries.' Like the rest of the men I dove for the nearest hedgerow in a Normandy field on the road to St. Lo. The low-flying planes dumped their bombs along the road. Only one missed, and that one hit near me. I was badly wounded by the shell fragments and the next thing I knew I was in an evacuation hospital and an Army nurse was giving me blood plasma. If it hadn't been for that I'd have been a goner.
I'm an old hand at plasma for I've had it twenty times. Now they're giving me whole-blood transfusions. There were Army nurses with me all the time and, tired as many of them were, they'd spend their off-duty time with us wounded men, helping to bring us back to where we thought things were really worth fighting for. We need all the nurses we can get. If you can, join the Army Nurse Corps."
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During a German bombing in Normandy, infantryman John Schuster is wounded by shell fragments, evacuated to a hospital, and saved by repeated blood plasma and whole-blood transfusions administered by dedicated Army nurses who provide ongoing care and encouragement.