Do Our Soldiers Fear Hypnosis?

May, 1945

Three months after he had made a split-second escape from the fast-flooding engine room of his torpedoed ship, a 21-year-old merchant seaman reported as a patient to the U. S. Marine Hospital at Ellis Island, New York.

He complained of severe and constant headaches, sleeplessness, and told of two distinct occasions when he had “blacked out”…