Since this is Memorial Day weekend...
...we thought we'd present a tale of a combat surgeon who served in multiple theatres of war!
Note: it may be considered NSFW/NSFS due to racial stereotypes common to the era.
In reality, "Dr David De Leon" didn't exist!
Everything attributed to him in this story actually occurred to Dr Samuel Preston Moore!Why his real name wasn't used in this piece is unknown!
Considering that other historical figures in this issue like Kit Carson, President Franklin D Roosevelt, Captain Oliver Perry, Francois Villon, Jim Thorpe, Helen Keller, Jessie Owens, and even Burl Ives weren't renamed, it seems...odd!
BTW, this never-reprinted illustrated feature from Standard Publishing's Real Life Comics #45 (1947) was the result of postal regulations!
In order to qualify as a periodical publication to receive lowered postal rates, a comic had to have at least one full page of typeset text per issue.
If there was a quarter-page or larger illustration on the page, then a second page had to be added to provide more text to fulfill the mandate!
When comics added letters pages from the 1950s onward, those fulfilled the text requirement, and these prose pieces all but disappeared!
Who says comics ain't educational???
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