Special Problems of Aviation Medicine: Twelfth and Fifteenth Air Forces. Medical Staffing.. X. MEDICAL SUPPORT OF AIR COMBAT IN CHINA-BURMA-INDIA— Continued. Tenth Air Force... 886 India-Burma Theater. 898 Health and Fighting Effectiveness: Tenth Air Force and AAF India- 900 Fourteenth Air Force and AAF China Theater. 902 Health and Fighting Effectiveness: AAF China Theater 907 XI. MEDICAL SUPPORT OF THE VERY LONG RANGE (VH) 92 Organizing the Medical Service of the XX Bomber Command. 926 1. Procurement of Medical Corps Officers for Duty With the Army Air Forces from August 1942-December 1942. . . . 56 2. Procurement of Medical Corps Officers for Duty With the Army Air Forces from December 1942 Through December 1943. 3. Nurses Assigned by the Nursing Section, Office of the Air Surgeon. 5. Course Hours Schedule... 6. The School of Aviation Medicine Graduates. 7. Instruction Surgical Subjects, AAFSAM 1936–1946. . 8. AME Students From Overseas. 9. Medical Examiner Ratings. 10. Aviation Medical Examiner Graduates, August 1940-September 1945. 134 148 153 173 187 189 190 191 191 194 208 15. Altitude Chamber Flights. 16. Major Surveys of the Army Air Forces Anthropological Projects 17. Medical Technicians Graduated from the Course at the School of Aviation Medicine from November 1944 to October 1945. . . . . 216 243 381 18. Number of Patients Evacuated Within the United States from October 1944 Through May 1946. ... 382 19. Distribution of 1,172,648 Air Evacuees by Theater With Death Rates in Flight per 100,000 Patients (January 1943-May 1945).. 399 20. Hospitals Attached to Twelfth Air Force.. 471 21. Evacuation in the Tunisian Campaign Ending 23 May 1943. 22. MTO Air Evacuation, September 1943-December 1943 480 486 23. Patients Evacuated by Month in the Mediterranean Theather of Operations, 1944. . . . 487 24. Percentages of Patients Evacuated by Category in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, 1944... 488 25. Patients Evacuated by Months in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, 1945. . . . . 489 26. Percentages of Patients Evacuated by Category in the Mediterranean. Theater of Operations, 1945. 490 27. Check Points in Effect in the Twelfth Air Force, 1943. 28. Probabilities of Survival in the Twelfth Air Force, 1944 500 500 29. Cases Appearing Before the Medical Disposition Board of the Twelfth Air 30. Fifteenth Air Force Medical Disposition Board Cases, 1944... 501 501 31. Evaluation of Diets Issued as Rations in the Theater.. 507 32. Fifteenth Air Force, Monthly and Annual Rates for Important Causes of Noneffectiveness, 1944. . . . . 510 33. Fifteenth Air Force, Important Causes of Noneffectiveness by Months and Total for Year 1944. 511 34. Incidence of Infectious Hepatitis by Squadrons, 19 August-29 December 1944... 513 35. Comparative Attack Rates in Personnel Over 30 Years of Age and Personnel Under 30 Years by Various Categories... 514 36. Disorders Due to Flying, Twelfth Air Force, November 1943-May 1944.. 37. Total Casualties, Flying Personnel, Fifteenth Air Force, November 1943 to May 1945.... 515 516 38. Killed in Action, Flying Personnel, Fifteenth Air Force, November 1943 to May 1945. 517 39. Wounded in Action, Flying Personnel, Fifteenth Air Force, November 1943 to May 1945. . . . 517 40. Ratio of Medical Department Personnel in 1944 to the Total Strength of the Eighth Air Force. 576 41. Gain and Losses in Medical Department Officer Personnel During 1944. . . 42. Dental Officer: Personnel Status During 1944... 577 579 43. Distribution of Medical Department Personnel Within U. S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe... 580 [xviii] 44. Flight Surgeons and Aviation Medical Examiners to Units of U. S. Stra- 582 583 46. Flight Surgeons and Aviation Medical Examiners Assigned to Units of U. S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe at Close of Period Covered by Report.. 47. Distribution of Medical Department Personnel Within U. S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe. 585 586 48. Flight Surgeons and Aviation Medical Examiners Assigned to Units of U. S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe at Close of Period Covered by Report.... 588 51. Incidence of Body Injuries. 49. Air Evacuation... 50. Patients Evacuated to United States. 52. Incidence of High Altitude Cold Injury, Eighth Air Force. 609 610 645 646 53. Trend of Anoxia Accidents in the Eighth Air Force Heavy Bombardment October 1943-November 1944.. 655 54. Permanent Removals from Flying. 680 55. Mean Strengths. . . . 680 56. Admissions to Sick Report July 1942 to June 1945. . 681 57. Admissions, All Causes, Diseases, and Nonbattle Injury, Air Forces in Western Europe, July 1942-June 1945 682 58. Admissions, Common Respiratory Diseases, Air Forces in Western Europe, July 1942 Through June 1945.. 683 59. Common Respiratory Diseases, July 1942-June 1945, Air Forces in Western Europe, Monthly Incidence. . . . 684 60. Admissions, Pneumonia, Air Forces in Western Europe, July 1942 Through June 1945... 685 61. Admissions, Influenza, Air Forces in Western Europe, July 1942 Through June 1945.... 685 62. Venereal Diseases by Type, White and Colored Personnel, Air Forces in Western Europe, July 1942 Through June 1945. . . 686 63. Admissions, Venereal Diseases, Air Forces in Western Europe, by Period, July 1942 Through June 1945. 687 64. Admissions, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, and Other Venereal Diseases, White Personnel, by Period.. 688 65. Admissions, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, and Other Venereal Diseases, Colored Personnel, by Period... 688 66. Venereal Disease Rate by Commands, January Through June 1945. 689 690 68. Number of Cases of Malaria and Admission Rate, July 1942-June 1945, Western European Theater 691 69. Admissions, Communicable Diseases, July 1943-June 1945, Air Forces in Western Europe. . . 691 70. Principal Causes of Death, Disease and Injury, Air Forces in Western Europe, July 1942 Through June 1945.. 71. Cause of Wounds (1 November 1942-31 December 1943). 72. Body Area of Wounds (1 November 1942–31 December 1943). 73. Single and Multiple Area Wounds (1 November 1942-31 December 1943). . 74. Types of Wounds (1 November 1942-31 December 1943). . . . . 75. Wounds of the Extremities (1 November 1942-31 December 1943). 76. Fatality Rate by Area of Body Struck (1 November 1942-31 December 1943) 77. Incidence of Wounds by Crew Position (1 November 1942-31 December 78. Mean Strength of Air Force Personnel, European Theater of Operations 85. "Life Table" for Group of 1,000 Bombers Starting Sorties, Lost at Specified Rates in Successive Missions, and Completing Tour at End of 25 Missions 86. Air Force Casualties in All Theaters (December 1941-August 1945) 1. War Department, Headquarters of the Army Air Forces, Washington- Page 39 fold-in after 38 2. 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