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          The history of the Guinea Pig Club, the band of airmen who were seriously burned in airplane fires, is a truly inspiring, spine-tingling tale....

          Archibald McIndoe

          New Zealand plastic surgeon (–)

          Sir Archibald Hector McIndoeCBE FRCS (4 May – 11 April ) was a New Zealand plastic surgeon who worked for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

          He improved the treatment and rehabilitation of badly burned aircrew.[1]

          Early life

          Archibald McIndoe was born 4 May in Forbury, in Dunedin, New Zealand, into a family of four.[2] His father was John McIndoe, a printer and his mother was the artist Mabel McIndoe née Hill.

          The biography of a plastic surgeon famous for work on airmen mutilated by fire.

        1. ISBN Mosley, Leonard ().
        2. The history of the Guinea Pig Club, the band of airmen who were seriously burned in airplane fires, is a truly inspiring, spine-tingling tale.
        3. In the whole of the Second World War, only two men succeeded as operational fighter pilots in the RAF after losing both legs.
        4. 1st edition.

          5. He had three brothers and one sister. McIndoe studied at Otago Boys' High School and later medicine at the University of Otago. After his graduation he became a house surgeon at Waikato Hospital.

          In , McIndoe was awarded the first New Zealand Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in the United States to study pathological anatomy.

          The fellowship was for an unmarried doctor and as McIndoe had recently married Adonia Aitkin they had to keep their marriage secret and he sailed without her.