Desert War-And Medicine -- Somewhere in the Western Desert, doctors and nurses of New Zealand unit operate in a tent hospital under lights intensified by the tins that bore gasoline to the fighting forces. Some 50 New Zealand nurses have put in seven months in the hospital. Doctors have made use of intravenous and spinal anesthetics in their desert operations and call it a revolutionary advance for wartime. June 18, 1942. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).