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Air Force doctors worked in the local hospitals on a regular basis to supplement the lack of doctors in the area where they were located. A lot of the doctors had been drafted into the Vietnamese army. This particular patient was in a motorcycle accident and had fluid in his lung. They could only give him local anesthesia....he kept repeating in moans the Vietnamese word for pain. I was light in the stomach while taking these photos but found the procedure very interesting.

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