An Army dentist in the combat zone during WWII

It is 60 years since the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the outbreak of World War II for the United States. Some of the men and women who served in the armed forces at the time are willing to share some of their reminiscences with those of us who could not serve for one reason or another or who may not even have been born at the time. One of the dentists who is willing to share some of his memories is Dr. Charles Q. Orden of New York. Unless these people share their memories much history will be lost forever in the next years, and we will all be poorer for it. We sincerely thank Dr. Orden for his offer of information and for allowing us to reproduce Fig. 1 in which he is seen as the dentist using a field dental chair, a foot-powered drill, and with a black dental corpsman as his assistant.