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00:00let me tell you the true story of a medic during the pacific war my story everything started at
00:14Pearl Harbor it all seemed peaceful until the war started that day for me and everyone in my
00:22company and so did my new life I saw things that day that would change everything I thought I knew
00:29about mankind from that moment I followed my comrades to witness the fall of the Philippines
00:35and participated in operation watchtower the battle of Guadalcanal I was but an aspiring medic
00:45at the start of the pacific war but the horror of war meant it didn't matter my brothers in arms
00:52needed me and I had to quickly find out how to properly do my job I wasn't ready one of the
01:01first lessons I learned was to treat the critically wounded first heavy bleeding tears burns and even
01:09amputated limbs were the daily things I saw my old life was over and every moment became a dilemma
01:19comrades lying on the ground with different wounds I couldn't save everyone I had to make dreadful
01:25choices about who should be treated first and saved but that was only the beginning time was of the
01:32essence as they were bleeding out depending on their wounds I learned to slowly drag them when they were
01:38bleeding a lot and to carry them on my shoulder to quickly get them to medical outposts this was also
01:44where I got most of my supplies I didn't always get everything so I made do with what I had or checked
01:50other outposts bandages tourniquets gauze those were easy to find but boy morphine and plasma they were
01:58lacking but if healing the wounded had been the only thing I had to worry about it would have been too
02:04easy dangers surrounded me at every given moment I was under fire from bullets bombs dropping on the
02:13battlefield or I needed to slip through enemy lines under their watchful eyes losing sight of any of
02:20that would have meant that my brothers in arms and I would die that's why I became a medic
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