Figure 105.—Antonio Cortizas, Cuban-born medical sculptor, at work on a heart-lung model. Sergeant Cortizas, a master specialist, died in 1956.
part of the year 1946, was "to make documented medical pictures available for study, research, teaching and publication"—an assignment which, he added, "requires more than a passive acceptance and filing of inadequately documented pictures."[1]
Major Naidorf's successor as Chief of the Service was Dr. Edward M. Gunn, who had served in the Pacific in World War II, and was at the time of the reorganization of the department a civil service administrative employee of the Surgeon General's Office. Two years later, in 1949, Dr. Gunn described the reorganized Service as the "most complete and well balanced organization of its kind."
The organization thus described included Roy M. Reeve (fig. 106) as Deputy Chief of the Service and Herman Van Cott as Chief of the Scientific
- ↑ Final Report, Maj. Carroll F. Naidorf, 26 October 1946. On file in historical records of AFIP.
