The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-15
B. DOUG LOVELACE Ap NeloSteatureS

BUSHNELL GENERAL HOSPI- AL. Utah-How's guy going to wing it in civilian life when hes lost a leg or arm at AnAo or Ne" Guinea or Leyte?
 That's the question soldiers ask he amputees who left limbs on some forsign battlefield. victims of mine cxulCsions. shell fragments, gan -rsne.
 Army doctors can't give all the answers: individual soldiers will re- act differently when they don CIV ics But doctors believe they can grs in a1.i equip these one-armed and one-legged soldiars-physicaliy end mantally-to make the rest possible use of their capacities.
 Mass Sports Demonstration
 They gave the answer in mass ports demonstration at Bushnelfs' huge, completely equipped gymnas-. j,iln. One legged and one-armed men. played volleyball and basket bsu. climbed ropes, chinned the bar --1ieI --eichte and Indian clubs, tossed the medicine ball, dipped
 oA flying rlngs. wove intricate patterns on horizontal and parallel bars. tumbled, fenced, worked out on punching bags. They bowed ana win.
 Evervtl7ing trey dil, they tid hard and well enough to shame many civilians. Pvt. Fred II. Bock-aan cf Ncre, Alaska. wce let leg ct the Anzio beaShhead when 8 mortar sheB rinred into lis knee, com p,eted 400 situps-areaking his own mark by lc0-and few minutes lat CT set a new record of 62 pushups. Trv trat. vcu two-legged guys, Ii you thing it's easy.
 sgt. James Wakefield of Centralia Washs air force gunner who was shot down over Schweinfurt on hls 13tn mission. spent year in Ger man hospitals and priscn camp and was repatriated a few months aec minus a leg, hopped so we'll or lis one good leg he was clearing tht high jump bar at well over foui feet. And he had plenty of com petition. at
 7aats the secret--if there iS any d the newly-developed Army technique of reconditioning ampu- tees. Physical exercise is necessary to develop and train muscles fol extra work to compensate for lost arms or legs. Calisthenics and ap- paratus exercises do much of tht job, but competitive sports supply the leaven that makes the other in teresting.
 Soldiers work out an hour oi more daily in Bushnell's vast fiele house. They start eff with prescrib. cd drills and exercises for about IL minutes, then get in a good fast tasketbah or volleyball game ol compete in apparatus work.
 Sure, if it wasn't for the com. petitioIt we wouldn't want to come ever here" SlSgt Burke R. Mow. att of l4 Acamedy St) Calais, Me. ccnfiasd with wide grin.
 Mowatt, a soldier since 1940 - hi was at Pearl Harbor and took par as flying fortress flight engineer 1T many South Pacific scraps before ht lost q leg on New Guinea showed what he meant few minutes later
 With eight one-legged buddies the Jumping Jacks, he won through to the vollevban finals.
 Amputees Show Spirit
 Now I hope those brassies (of ficsrs) win their semi-final,' he ex claimed. still breathing hard "We1 show 'emp
 That's the spirit of the amputees Q fiqhtine. competitive spirit-th old American try. And that spiri nurtured by new Army medice methods, may be the reason wh they have the highest morale at tn hospital.
 Army doctors believe the ampu tees, fitted with new arms and leg will carry tl,e same spirit into civ