New Britain herald., 1918-10-25
YALE HOSPITAL MEN
 IN ST. MIHIELPUSH
17O Operations Performed During
 First Day of Drive

New Haven, Oct .25.-Accordirg to
 a letter received by Secretary Stokes 1 from an officer of the Yale Mobile Hospital Unit (Mobile Hospital, No. ! 39, A. E. F.), this pioneer American mobile hospital rendered important service in the recent St. Mihiel of fensive Enlarged to 500 beds a new organization was quickly formed and a new operating room and triage
 on the principle of the Ford factory arranged. Despite the fact that a, maximum number of IA operations was figured according to the regular French formula. ITO operations were performed in the first 24 hours of the drive. In addition to the POI cases
 received during that first day, there
 were more than 400 people on the hilltop where the unit was stationed who had to be fed.
 It is reported that the enlarged or
 ganization under the command of
 Lieut.. Col. Joseph Marshall Flint of
 the Yale Medical School worked
 splendidly during the drive. In three
 weeks, during the Chateau-Thierry
 drive the small central group of f1f-
 teen officers, nineteen nurses, and
 eighty men was expended into an or
 ganzation of 250. The evacuation
 hospital personnel arrived too late to
 be of any great use, necessitating the
 units going through the drive with the organization previously arranged.
 In the letter, originally dated Sep tember 26, the statement is made that the line had receded from the mobile hospital about fourteen miles to the nearest point, but that owing to eX- cellent roads and service the hospital was as near or nearer the front than before. The unit was then under or ders to be ready for moving forward at any moment, although no decision had been reached regarding, this picture received with the letter of the model of the Yale unit, which since then may very likely have changed it's character considerably, shows the tent and barrack units side by side, the large operating pavilion, com pleted for the recent drive, the mar row-gaugc railroad used for the first time in this system of the A. F. F. for evacuating patients to the broad gauge, and. the circus tent presented by Chaplain Petty of the 102nd Con- necticut regiment when that unit could not use the tent and moving picture machine, also presented, be- cause of it's movement in the drive The tent and moving picture machine had been presented to the regiment through Chaplain Petty by friends of his in New Haven.
 Writing from Paris under date Of September IS, a Y. M. c. A. officer who went through the St. Mihiel drive. refers to spending a night at Mobile Hospital No. 39 and seeing 24O wounded come through. He fur ther tells of an airplane circhng about the hospital just' before dusk and finally landing and calling for a stretcher. They found that the plane was a French mChine with a wOund- ed observer. the pilot hVing been un- touched in the fight with Boche ma chimes. The remarkable fact was that the French airplane had flown to the hospital and delivered the man wounded in the leg and foot to the doctors probably within ten minutes of the fight. This is an indication of the nearncss of the Yale unit to the front during the St. Mihiel drive and of it's usefulness during that time
 The Yale Mobile Hospital Unit was organized at the Yale Medical School : by Professor Joseph Marshall Flint in the spring of 1917. Despite various obstacles, it sailed for France during ,