Healers in World War II: An Oral History of the American Medical Corps


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Dr. Logan W. Hovis parachuted onto Corregidor with the 503rd Regimental Combat Team. Dr. Jeremiah Henry Holleman served with the 89th Division all the way into Germany, liberating a concentration camp. Nurse Mary A. Breeding, five feet tall, 100 pounds, served with the 174th General Hospital in France. Dr. Vincent Stephen Conti was awarded a Bronze Star for fighting typhus in Naples, Italy. These accounts and 31 others covering the heroics of 44 individuals working in the Medical Corps are gathered here by editor Patricia W. Sewell. Firsthand accounts are given by doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, front-line medics, Navy corpsmen, medical personnel who served on air evacuation teams and hospital ships, and others who functioned in many different capacities. Autobiographies, interviews, letters and cassette tapes helped compose most of these narratives.

Author: Patricia W. Sewell
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Published: 07/01/2001
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.00w x 0.62d
ISBN13: 9780786409334
ISBN10: 0786409339
BISAC Categories:
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War II | General

About the Author
Writer and researcher Patricia W. Sewell lives in Griffin, Georgia.