LIVE GRENADE REMOVED FROM MAN'S BACK Live grenade removed surgically from man's back in Saigon.
	Tape Master:	8948
	Catalog #:	138562
	Clip Number:	138562-1
	Orginal Film:	UN 4077 B
	Timecode:	01:21:55 - 01:23:20
	Location:	Saigon, Vietnam
	Year Shot:	1965 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	No
	Color:	No
	Headings:	HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Surgery LOCATIONS/SOUTHEAST ASIA: Vietnam (Indochina), South Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) WAR & CONFLICT/VIETNAM: Medicine
	Description:	LIVE GRENADE REMOVED FROM MAN'S BACK (SAIGON) Saigon, Vietnam. MS. A South Vietnam farmer, Nguyen Van Chinh. He was struck in the back by a three-and-a half inch grenade which lodged beneath his skin above his kidney and it never exploded. Various shots of a team of American Air Force surgeons led by Major General James Humphries in a special hut standing behind a wall of sandbags and operating on the man with long instruments. Actual shots of the man behind the wall as a long pincer instrument grips the grenade and pulls it through a hole in the skin. MS. Man gets up and walks from behind sandbags and is carried off on a stretcher. Various shots of Dr Humphries meeting press after the operation. MS. The patient after the operation.

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