U.S. Soldiers'blood raced to wounded in France.

U.S. Soldiers'blood raced to wounded in France. Second Lieutenant Stasia Pejko of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a member of a U.S. Army Medical Corps air evacuation squadron, tests the lid of a ten-gallon can of whole blood being raced to the wounded in France from an air base in England. Private Richard Chalbeck (left) of Manchester, New Hampshire, and Joseph Bidwell of Burlington, Iowa, members of a quartermaster depot company, left another container of the fluid into the transport plane. Donated by American soldiers stationed in England, the blood is subjected to a new process which prepares it for transfusion and vitalizes the blood through use of dextrose. Blood shipments get the highest priorities, being rushed to the Continent in C-47 cargo planes.