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Major (Dr.) John H. Schneider, an Air Force neurosurgeon at Wilford Hall Medical Center, shows Captain Margaret Herring how he reconstructed her shattered skull. Herring was severly injured with a shattered skull and brain damage when a rock fell from a truck, and hurled through the windshield of her vehicle into her left temple shattering her skull at an impact speed of 100 mph while she was driving home from work. AIRMAN Magazine, May 1997, highlighted this story
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Kelly Air Force Base
State: Texas (TX)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Major Command Shown: AFMC
Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Val Gempis, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Collection of Skulls, bones and skeletons.
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Date
01/05/1997
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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