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Subject = OPNS DESERT SHIELD STORM DIARY   807TH MASH                     

Parent Organization = ARCENT      

Unit = VII CORPS   

Folder Title = SUBORDINATE COMMAND HISTORICAL REPORTS-2D COSCOM-332D MED-341ST MED-912TH MED                   

Document Number =          3

Box ID = BX000308







       wounded on the stretchers they arrive with, and pull out large
       boxes of dressings and intravenous fluids from the MILVANS. We
       move the patients across the compound to the 123rd clearing
       company, accompanied by several physicians and nurses to assist
       with their care. At 1900 hours we open our doors, and the
       patients begin to arrive en mass. Some of the staff go to bed
       cold, and hungry, and dirty, and wet, endeavoring to get some
       sleep after very little these past three days. There is little
       time for personal needs as casualties, both Iraqi and American,
       continue to arrive by air throughout the night.


       27 February 1991


             0800: The cease fire is announced by 60L Mutchler. We
       cheer, naively thinking the most of our work is completed. By
       0900 the dust-off birds are flying again, this time arriving with
       land mine, cluster bombs, and shrapnel injuries. During our 100
       hour ground war, the 807th MASH is in operation for 120 hours,
       treat 76 casualties (42 Americans and 34 Iraqis). Two Americans
       died, both came from the lst Armor Division and both were the
       victims of land mines after the cease-fire. Both these young men
       were terribly injured by cluster bombs, and after hours in the
       operating room and multiple units of blood, both expired. This
       is quite frustrating to the entire staff, but a grim reminder of
       the cost of war.

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