| Description | Typescript report providing an account of D.W. Montgomery's experience as Surgeon in charge of a Field Surgical Team which landed on Normandy beach early on D-Day. Includes details of training preparations, working conditions, nature of injuries sustained in battle and operations performed, drugs used (penicillin and 'Sulfa' drugs) and resources available. Also includes a brief summary of the six cases on which Montgomery operated who died, and a comment on post-operative death rates more generally. Concludes with a summary of 240 major operations performed June-August 1944 arranged according to nature and location of injury: head, chest, abdomen, fractures, joints, soft tissue wounds, burns, nerve injuries, arterial injuries, eye injuries, and miscellaneous (perilunar dislocation and 'burst' abdomen). |