FIELD HOSPITAL IN TECHNICOLOR A few hours before artist Baer came upon this scene at Myitkyina Airfield these colored parachutes, pitched as tents, floated from the skies with ammunition, food and medical supplies. Each type of supply has its own distinctively colored chute. Troops have taken the airfield, but the Japs still infest the jungle brush around the edges. So Burma Surgeon Seagrave found it practical to pitch his parachute tents on the airstrip. As he operated (foreground), assisted by Burmese nurses whom he had trained, American fighter planes overhead kept the Japs in the surrounding brush reasonably quiet.  PREVIOUS IMAGE       FULL SCREEN       MENU       NEXT IMAGE