Download or read book Memoirs of a Flight Surgeon Serving in the South Pacific During World War II written by A. E. Meisenbach and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book P O W in the Pacific written by William N. Donovan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P.O.W. in the Pacific: Memoirs of an American Doctor in World War II describes the last weeks before Donovan's capture and his struggles after being taken prisoner at the surrender of Corregidor to the Japanese on May 6, 1942. He remained a P.O.W. until his release on August 14, 1945, V-J Day.
Download or read book Best Little Stories from World War II written by C. Brian Kelly and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold stories of bravery, triumph, and redemption in the depths of the darkest world war. Behind the great powers, global military conflict, and infamous battles are more than 100 incredible stories that bring to life the Second World War. During the six years of war were countless little-known moments of profound triumph and tragedy, bravery and cowardice, and good and evil. These amazing and unbelievable stories of brotherhood, redemption, escape, and civilian courage shed new light on the war that gripped the entire world. Experience the action through the eyes of people like: Lieutenant Jacob Beser, who was aboard both the Enola Gay and Bock's Car and felt the force of the shockwave that nearly destroyed the planes after dropping the H-bombs that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Professor William Miller, who collapsed during a death march of POWs in Germany and was saved by the same man who had rescued him from what would have been a fatal car wreck in Pennsylvania five years earlier. The brave civilians who answered the British Admiralty's call to help rescue an army from Dunkirk during the height of a dangerous battle and sailed small fishing boats into relentless German fire, ultimately saving 335,000 men from This is the perfect book for any history buff looking for the untold stories of military and civilian daring during World War 2.
Download or read book Memoirs of the Flight Surgeon of HMS Nabob written by Jr. Herbert Read, Charles and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the evening dusk of August 22, 1944, during an intense battle off the Norwegian coast, the HMS Nabob, one of the two Canadian-crewed aircraft carriers in the Second World War was struck by a torpedo on the starboard side. Among the souls on board was Dr. Charles Read Jr., a young flight surgeon who needed to draw upon every bit of his training and skills to fight against seemingly impossible odds to save the lives of his shipmates. These are his memoires.Follow Dr. Read from his first, fresh-faced moments in Halifax as a newly minted Navy Medical Officer to a surprise appointment to be the flight surgeon on the much-lauded Nabob, the aircraft carrier thought of as the sign that Canada's navy had arrived in the big leagues of world sea power. In vivid detail, Read recounts his training (including a hair-raising ride in a fighter jet), his friendships (from Chizy, the affable wine steward, to the legendary fighter pilot Bobby Bradshaw), to his wonder at the beauty of Europe (even in the midst of wartime destruction) to his memorable encounters with those he met along the way (including two beautiful movie stars).Read presents war as he saw it, the gut-wrenching carnage, the endless monotony, the baffling absurdity, and, shamefully, the inevitable tragedies that happen under incompetent command.These memoires present an exciting and never-before-seen view into a ship that has, until this book, been little more than a footnote in history.
Download or read book Dearest Babe Letters from a World War II Flight Surgeon written by Kelly Farris Mazade and published by Dearest Babe. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epistolary memoir of Dr. Joe W. King
Download or read book Conflict to Combat in the South Pacific written by Jim McDougall and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of James Robert (Jim) McDougall's service during World War II. He served as a combat aircrewman, ordnanceman, and bombardier for the 7th Fleet's Black Cat Squadron VPB-52 in the South Pacific from 1943-45. Striving for accuracy, in addition to memories of his experiences and crewman's Flight Log, Jim obtained copies of the US Navy Official War Diaries and VPB-52 Aircraft Action Reports from this time period. This memoir was written mainly as a reminder to his family of how a great conflict affected one member of their family and why some have such a deep feeling of love, respect and gratitude to live in this wonderful country.
Download or read book Best True Stories from World War II written by C. Brian Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Being Great Again written by Diane Campbell Green and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was a medical doctor in the South Pacific during World War II. He had a camera, he had the chemicals, and he told his story with the photographs he produced. The soldier/surgeon came home; he delivered baby boomers and raised his own extended family in a postwar world. As part of his extended family, I grew up happy, safe, and instilled with compassion and a can-do attitude.
Download or read book A Doctor s War written by Aidan MacCarthy and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2006-05-19 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “engrossing” memoir of a Royal Air Force doctor’s World War II experiences, from surviving Dunkirk to witnessing Nagasaki (The Irish Times). As an RAF medical officer, Aidan MacCarthy served in France, survived Dunkirk, and was interned by the Japanese in Java, where his ingenuity helped his fellow prisoners through awful conditions. While en route to Japan in 1944, his ship was torpedoed, sending him into the Pacific. Miraculously, MacCarthy was rescued by a whaling boat—only to be re-interned in Japan. Ironically, it was the dropping of the atomic bomb at Nagasaki that saved his life, though it also meant being an eyewitness to the horror and devastation it caused. Long out of print, this remarkable war memoir was rediscovered during a journey through Ireland by Pete McCarthy, author of McCarthy’s Bar, who describes it as “jaw-dropping.” “Written in a straightforward, matter-of-fact tone, this book is marked by the author’s ability to keep cool under adversity and by his admirable sense of humor and irony. A wonderful, if chilling work.” —Publishers Weekly “A gripping read.” —Evening Echo
Download or read book War and Love written by Howard Wilbur Jones (Jr.) and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WAR AND LOVE takes us into the field operating rooms just behind the murderous front lines of World War II. Howard Jones, then a 33-year-old surgeon, Army Medical Corps, records his first experience:
Download or read book A Surgeon in Wartime China written by Lyle Stephenson Powell and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book South Pacific at Seventeen written by James Richard Snellen and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entering the service at age seventeen, Navy veteran, James Snellen, recounts his World War II experiences aboard the USS Cofer (APD-62) and his mine-sweeping duties within the South Pacific.
Download or read book Eagles of the Pacific written by Edwin L. Spight and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Physician Soldier written by Michael P. Gabriel and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick R. Gabriel graduated from medical school in 1940, entered the US Army, and was assigned to the newly-created 39th Station Hospital. His letters from the Pacific theater—especially from Guadalcanal, Angaur, and Saipan—capture the everyday life of a soldier physician. His son, Michael P. Gabriel, a professional historian, has faithfully preserved, edited, and annotated that correspondence to add a new dimension to our understanding of the social history of World War II, which he presents here in Physician Soldier: The South Pacific Letters of Captain Fred Gabriel from the 39th Station Hospital. Like most wartime hospitals, the 39th Station Hospital was positioned in a rear area and saw limited direct action. And like most wartime hospitals, the 39th Station Hospital spent each day confronting the injuries and casualties of frontline combat. Gabriel supervised a ward and oversaw the unit’s laboratory, serving a hospital that provided care to four hundred patients at a time. Gabriel’s letters home capture this experience and more, providing a revealing look into day-to-day life in the Pacific theater. He discusses the training of medical officers and female nurses, recreational activities such as Bob Hope’s USO show, and even his thoughts on the death of FDR, the end of the war in Europe, and ultimately the horrors of the atomic bomb.
Download or read book Surgeon to Soldiers written by Edward Delos Churchill and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 1972 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on extensive diary and records he kept while serving as a consultant to American surgeons in the North African-Mediterranean theater of operations, Dr. Edward D. Churchill ... [writes about] combat surgery, the progress in military medicine during World War II, and wound management and mismanagement ... in this ... account of his experiences"--Jacket.
Download or read book A Surgeon s Duty written by Andrew H. Farmer and published by A.H. Farmer. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papercover with laminated finish, FBPC binding
Download or read book A Navy Flight Surgeon in the Sands of Sheba written by C. Herbert Gilliland and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
