Download or read book A World War II Flight Surgeon s Story written by S Carlisle May and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Nazi German planes darkened the skies of the European Theater during WWII, the United States rallied to the challenge. Brave pilots fought and died under often intense and dangerous conditions, racing to end the war which was creating such devastation and loss of lives. Keeping these men flying were the flight surgeons. The doctors who treated the minds and bodies of the crews. Stress, injury, infectious disease, and difficult living conditions took their tolls, as the flight surgeons fought to keep the army air force in fighting form. Dr. Lamb Myhr was one such flight surgeon. As he served in North Africa, England and the mainland of Europe, Dr. Myhr treated horrific injuries, unfamiliar illnesses, and venereal disease, as well as supervising the health and safety of the entire base. As pilots and crew struggled with fatigue, disease, and devastating losses, Dr. Myhr healed, counseled, and taught them, often with limited resources. He worked long hours in unsafe conditions, making split-second decisions to save lives. His war experiences offer a rare glimpse into the daily life of a flight surgeon on the frontlines through Dr. Myhr's records, correspondence, personal pictures and memories, exploring firsthand the perils and pressures of one of these unsung heroes.
Download or read book Flight Surgeon written by Thurman Shuller and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonel Thurman Shuller’s war diary traces his story from Las Vegas Army Airfield in the summer of 1941 to the desperate days of the air war in Europe. The group surgeon character in the motion picture Twelve O’clock High was based on Shuller during his time as Group Surgeon of the famed 306th Bomb Group at Thurleigh, England, where he struggled with finding medical solutions for high altitude frostbite, oxygen deprivation, combat fatigue, and a growing crisis of hopelessness among the air crews. Shuller campaigned for setting the maximum number of missions for air crews to fly in a combat tour and argued for the elimination of "Maximum Effort" missions that forced them back to base from furloughs and passes. Shuller’s diary brings his wartime experience back to life. His descriptions of the journey across the North Atlantic in the nose of a B-17 Flying Fortress are vivid and personal. His accounts about life among the British during the war bring a fresh look at the air war as it emerged from the pleasant meadowlands of East Anglia. Royalties for the book are being donated to the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force (www.mightyeighth.org).
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 Peace and War Recollections written by Alfred Colquitt and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flight Surgeon written by Samuel T. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Occasion Fleeting written by John A. Woodworth and published by . This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Medical Support of the Army Air Forces in World War II written by Mae Mills Link and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The U S Army Air Forces in World War II written by James Nanney and published by Department of the Air Force. This book was released on 1998 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States Army Air Forces in World War 2. Summarizes the Army Air Forces (AAF) medical achievements that led to the creation of the Air Force Medical Service in July 1949.
Download or read book Medical Support of the Army Air Forces in World War II written by United States. Air Force Medical Service and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Army Air Forces Medical Services In World War II written by James S. Naney and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history summarizes the Army Air Forces (AAF) medical achievements that led to the creation of the Air Force Medical Service in July 1949. When the United States entered World War II, our nation’s small aviation force belonged to the U.S. Army and relied on the Army medical system for support. The rapid expansion of the AAF and the medical challenges of improved aircraft performance soon placed great strain on the ground-oriented Army medical system. By the end of the war, the AAF had successfully acquired its own medical system oriented to the special needs of air warfare. This accomplishment reflected the determined leadership of AAF medical leaders and the dedication of thousands of medical practitioners who volunteered for aviation medical responsibilities that were often undefined or unfamiliar to them. In the face of new challenges, many American medics responded with hard work and intelligence that contributed greatly to Allied air superiority.
Download or read book Medical Support of the Army Air Forces in World War II written by Mae Mills Link and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The History of the Medical Department of the United States Navy in World War II written by United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Final Mission of Bottoms Up written by Dennis R. Okerstrom and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 18, 1944, the end of the war in Europe finally in sight, American copilot Lieutenant Lee Lamar struggled alongside pilot Randall Darden to keep Bottoms Up, their B-24J Liberator, in the air. They and their crew of eight young men had believed the intelligence officer who, at the predawn briefing at their base in southern Italy, had confided that their mission that day would be a milk run. But that twenty-first mission out of Italy would be their last. Bottoms Up was staggered by an antiaircraft shell that sent it plunging three miles earthward, the pilots recovering control at just 5,000 feet. With two engines out, they tried to make it to a tiny strip on a British-held island in the Adriatic Sea and in desperation threw out everything not essential to flight: machine guns, belts of ammunition, flak jackets. But over Pula, in what is now Croatia, they were once more hit by German fire, and the focus quickly became escaping the doomed bomber. Seemingly unable to extricate himself, Lamar all but surrendered to death before fortuitously bailing out. He was captured the next day and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner at a stalag on the Baltic Sea, suffering the deprivations of little food and heat in Europe’s coldest winter in a century. He never saw most of his crew again. Then, in 2006, more than sixty years after these life-changing experiences, Lamar received an email from Croatian archaeologist Luka Bekic, who had discovered the wreckage of Bottoms Up. A veteran of the Balkan wars of the 1990s, Bekic felt compelled to find out the crew’s identities and fates. Lee Lamar, a boy from a hardscrabble farm in rural northwestern Missouri, had gone to college on the GI Bill, become a civil engineer, gotten married, and raised a family. Yet, for all the opportunity that stemmed from his wartime service, part of him was lost. The prohibition on asking prisoners of war their memories during the repatriation process prevented him from reconciling himself to the events of that November day. That changed when, nearly a year after being contacted by Bekic, Lamar visited the site, hoping to gain closure, and met the Croatian Partisans who had helped some members of his crew escape. In this absorbing, alternating account of World War II and its aftermath, Dennis R. Okerstrom chronicles, through Lee Lamar’s experiences, the Great Depression generation who went on to fight in the most expensive war in history. This is the story of the young men who flew Bottoms Up on her final mission, of Lamar’s trip back to the scene of his recurring nightmare, and of a remarkable convergence of international courage, perseverance, and friendship.
Download or read book Military Medicine and Cold War written by Jerald Lee Watts, M.D. FS. USAFRes. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his memoir Military Medicine and Cold War, author Jerald Lee Watts recounts his time in the United States Air Force in the early 1960's--a period of high tensions that included the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet intimidation of West Berlin, and the American involvement in the former Belgian Congo.
Download or read book Front Line Surgeons written by Clifford Lewis Graves and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Third Aux (Third Auxiliary Surgical Group) in World War II, written by a member of the group with additional interviews with other members. The unit served from May 1942 until the end of July 1945 in Europe. It served in North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, the Bulge, and in Germany. "May it contribute to a better understanding of the work of the surgeons in the Second World War and to the glory of that great outfit, the Third Auxiliary Surgical Group"--Preface.
