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By Anne Marie Walters

By Col. Robert W. Black

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Craig Robertson" data-source="post: 60322" data-attributes="member: 6852"><p> <table style='width: 100%'><tr><th>Diagnosis:</th><td>Diagnosis: Pneumo-thorax, sucking, traumatic; Location: Thorax, generally; Location: Dorsal vertebrae; CausativeAgent: Artillery Shell, Fragments, Afoot or unspecified; Diagnosis: Fracture, compound, comminuted with nerve involvement only</td></tr></table><p></p><table style='width: 100%'><tr><th>Type of Injury:</th><td>InjuryType: Battle casualty; InjuryType2: All battle casualties, and all battle injuries not intentionally inflicted by self or another person</td></tr></table><p></p><table style='width: 100%'><tr><th>Medical Treatment:</th><td>Penicillin therapy (treatment with penicillin); Transfusion (transfer of another's blood to a patient) (includes administration of plasma)</td></tr></table><p></p><p>This is what is showing on Ancestry from the <a href="https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61817" target="_blank">U.S., World War II Hospital Admission Card Files, 1942-1954</a>.</p><p>Also looks like he was admitted to hospital April (Cellulitis) + June to August 1944 (bladder wound from machine gun).</p><p></p><p>Do you have any further details/photos to add to his record?</p></blockquote><p></p>