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19.01.2017 | ArtiFacts
ArtiFacts: Corporal Robert O. Burkhardt’s Right Leg
verfasst von:
Alan J. Hawk, BA
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 6/2017
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Excerpt
On April 19, 1945, Allied tanks traveling down a German road in preparation for the next day’s assault were attacked by a German ground-attack aircraft. Corporal (Cpl.) Robert O. Burkhardt of the 4th Infantry Division sustained a traumatic amputation of his right arm, an open fracture of the middle-third of his right femur, as well as penetrating wounds to his left knee, right back, and neck. The battalion surgeon did not think Cpl. Burkhardt would survive and refused to give him plasma, relenting only when an orderly from Cpl. Burkhardt’s unit offered a direct transfusion of his own blood. …