retinal edema was observed on these patients, but no serious or permment danuge was found. (d) Air Force Medical Care: The Army provided medical SUFFOrt to the operation with the Air Force furnishing additional medical per’~onnel. An Air Force Flight Surgeon and several corpsmen were present during the latter part of the Mildup and during the operation. The Flight Surgeon was provideclwith an office near the airstrip and held sick call for flight personnel. (4) kdical supply: Normal requisitions were filled in 120 days, but emergency needs were net in as little as five days. The high humidity and rainfall caused frequent breakdown of equipment. Electronic equipment, such as X-ray apparatus, electrocardio- graph machine, and diather~ required constant attention. (5) Air Evacuation: Types of patients evacuated consisted of neuro-psychiatric cases, fractures, epilepsy, diabetics, post-operative, elective surgery, and cardiac cases. The patients were evacuated to Tripler Army Hospital, usually via regular MATS flights. Trained corpsmen acccmyanied the patients when needed, md a medical officer was sent when a doctor~s attendance was re- quired. Arrangements to have the ilirEvacuation Squadron at Hawaii evacuate these patients were time-consuming and proved unsatisfactory. (6) Sanitation: Ffies were present on the is~d but produced no great sanitary problems. Two outbreaks of food poisoning occurred. One in i~pril1956 involving 50 to 60 individuals, 30 of when were hospitalized for part of one day. In May 1956, If+AEC to improper processing cf frozen milk. C2 mlllmJ --- A-.A._A . ..& This was traced -.&&