McElroy states that psychoneurosis of the combat-anxiety type was the most frequent diagnosis made in psychiatric casualties that had to be removed from the zone of combat. In his experience anxiety states occur more frequently in men who are not physically injured and if they are, the more disabling the wound the less the anxiety. Anxiety reactions occur in the healthy as well as in old psychoneurotics. McElroy describes the signs and symptoms of the typical acute anxiety reaction. He points out that these states are followed by bodily symptoms. The greater the combat stress the greater the tendency to develop this reaction. The treatment the author describes consists of sedation and reassurance and does not follow the dynamic techniques used in the Air Forces.