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 Memoirs of the Flight Surgeon of HMS Nabob written by Jr. Charles Herbert Read and published by . This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HMS Nabob, 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.
Download or read book Valor and Courage written by Benjamin J. Hruska and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the stories of the USS Block Island CVE 21 and CVE 106 and their crews, many of whom served on both ships in the Atlantic and Pacific theatres
Download or read book The Navy Flight Surgeon written by United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Navy Flight Surgeon written by United States. Department of the Navy. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
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:
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Download or read book Charles Clark Dugan M D written by Charles C. Dugan and published by . This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the life story of Charles Clark Dugan, M.D., AA, AB, and MPH. He served in the USAF for nine years as the only available Pilot, Flight Surgeon, and Physician through those years. He was hospital commander at Barksdale AFB, LA and flew all the long flights with the same crew in B-29 and B-47 aircraft. He described the true basic path physiology of cerebral concussion correctly for the first time. In private practice as a physician, this doctor practiced mostly dermatology but was board certified by six American Boards in six specialties, three basic science boards and six state boards. He also has 30 fellowships. With another immunologist, they developed successful vaccines for herpes simplex virus (HSV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). He had many unusual and exciting experiences both in the military and private medical practice.
Download or read book ALL SOLDIERS RUN AWAY written by Andy Owen and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Alan Juniper who deserted twice from the British Army during the Second World War.
Download or read book The Travels of Dean Mahomet written by Dean Mahomet and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insider/outsider in India, Ireland, and England. Emigrating to Britain and living there for over half a century, Mahomet started what was probably the first Indian restaurant in England and then enjoyed a distinguished career as a practitioner of "oriental" medicine, i.e., therapeutic massage and herbal steam bath, in London and the seaside resort of Brighton. This is a fascinating account of life in late eighteenth-century India—the first book written in English by an Indian—framed by a mini-biography of a remarkably versatile entrepreneur. Travels presents an Indian's view of the British conquest of India and conveys the vital role taken by Indians in the colonial process, especially as they negotiated relations with Britons both in the colonial periphery and the imperial metropole. Connoisseurs of unusual travel narratives, historians of England, Ireland, and British India, as well as literary scholars of autobiography and colonial discourse will find much in this book. But it also offers an engaging biography of a resourceful, multidimensional individual.
Download or read book A Magnificent Farce written by Alfred Edward Newton and published by Boston : Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 1921 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book All the Ship s Men HMCS Athabaskan s Untold Stories written by Sherry J. Pringle and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the Ship's Men: HMCS Athabaskan's Untold Stories" is a collection of personal stories of sailors on-board Canada's Tribal Class Destroyer, HMCS Athabaskan when it was sunk by enemy fire mere days before the Normandy Invasion. This revised edition includes seventeen new tales.
Download or read book The East India Company at Home 1757 1857 written by Margot Finn and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.
Download or read book The Thirteenth Hussars in the Great War written by Henry Mortimer Durand and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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