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Combat Medic World War II

Author : John A. Kerner, M.D.
Publisher : ibooks
ISBN 13 : 1596873167
Total Pages : 811 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Combat Medic World War II written by John A. Kerner, M.D. and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Here in Combat Medic we see a bright and talented young physician transformed into a front line battlefield medic in the greatest battle of WWII, the Normandy Invasion. In this personal reflection, his heart and courage are played out with genuine humanity.” —Dianne Feinstein, United States Senator “It is with great pleasure that I learned through the office of the President of the French Republic of your nomination to the rank of Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor.” —Guy Wildenstein, President, the American Society of the French Legion of Honor “Dr. Kerner is a physician’s physician...the history of a gifted scholar, teacher, administrator, and most important of all, doctor.” —The Honorable Barbara Boxer, United States Senator “Combat Medic is a page turner... It is a miracle that I have this manuscript to read, that you lived to write it.” —Professor Barth Marshall, USF, Fromm Institute A decorated medical officer’s harrowing and insightful portrait of war on the battlefield from northern France to Germany. More than fifty years after the carnage at Normandy, Dr. John Kerner draws from his wartime journals and letters home to present a candid and insightful portrait of war. Medical units under his charge pushed through western Europe, improving on the treatment and transportation of the wounded during some of the most brutal fighting of the war. Amidst the mud and blood of combat, this decorated medical officer shares a time and place when living beyond each day was in serious question. Kerner’s account includes some of the greatest moments of World War II: the dramatic breakout of the Normandy hedgerow country, the thrilling dash across France in 1944, and the exhilarating seige of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. Kerner’s achievement of saving lives, often with improvised methods and shells flying overhead, is a gripping account of man’s noble humanity in the midst of horrifying inhumanity.

Medic!

Author : Robert Joseph Franklin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803220146
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Medic! written by Robert Joseph Franklin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lt. Gen. George S. Patton remarked that the “45th Infantry Division is one of the best, if not the best division that the American army has ever produced.” Such praise came at a steep price, for the 45th saw some of the fiercest fighting in the European campaign—from Sicily to Anzio and from southern France into Germany—and racked up one of the highest casualty rates. Through it all, medic Robert “Doc Joe” Franklin—drafted in 1942 and thrust into combat with no specific training or knowledge for treating war wounds—soldiered on, fighting as hard to keep his men alive as the enemy fought to kill them. His medical story, one of the first of World War II, is told here with simplicity, unflinching honesty, and grit. Studded with memorable vignettes—of a friend who “smells” the Germans long before they appear, the dog that acts as an artillery spotter, the lieutenant who can’t see beyond a few hundred feet—Franklin’s memoir documents the almost unbearable drama of ground gained and lives lost as well as the terrible human toll of battle on himself, his comrades, and civilians quite literally caught in the crossfire. A rare look at the fight for lives laid on the line, Medic! brings to life as never before the reality of war.

Medic!

Author : Robert L. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780887393167
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Medic! written by Robert L. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The is the recollection of combat in Europe during World War II of then naive, nineteen-year-old Army medic Robert L. Smith, responsible for saving the lives of severely wounded GIs under the worst possible conditions. The author recounts his journey of remembrance, which he took with his wife half a century later. Using a hand-drawn map from the war, Smith retraced his route with the 112th Regiment, 28th Infantry Division from Omaha Beach in Normandy to deep into Germany. Recounting his experiences on the front, Smith captures the trauma of a young man's survival in war. In the chronicle of his trip back to old battlegrounds, he illuminates his experiences with the wise perspective of age.

Combat Medic, World War II

Author : John Kerner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Combat Medic, World War II written by John Kerner and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Medic

Author : Leo Litwak
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 156512877X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book The Medic written by Leo Litwak and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Litwak was a university student when he joined the Army to fight in World War II, "a na've, callow eighteen-year-old son prepared to join other soldier boys being hauled off to war." In 1944 he found himself in Belgium, in the middle of the waning European war, a medic trained to save lives but often powerless to do much more than watch life slip away. It was hard fighting that took Litwak and his rifle company into the heart of Germany at the close of the war. But Litwak learned there was more to war than fighting, more to understand than maps and ammunition. In the final months of the war, he watched the men in his company tenderly serve food at a Passover seder for a dozen brutalized Jewish women newly liberated from slavery. He watched those same men torture and execute defenseless German soldiers. He fell in love at the Moulin Rouge in a scene straight out of a Toulouse-Lautrec painting. The men in his company were dreamers, thieves, friends, killers, revolutionaries, and heroes. They were the men of their time: sometimes brave, sometimes compassionate, sometimes cruel, sometimes loving, usually scared. They were held together by loyalty, only to be scattered by the war's end. The Medic is the gritty, wise, bighearted, and unflinching account of one man's quest to find sense in war and its aftermath.

Rush to Danger

Author : Ted Barris
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1443447943
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Rush to Danger written by Ted Barris and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted military historian Ted Barris once asked his father, Alex, “What did you do in the war?” What the former US Army medic then told his son forms the thrust of Barris’s latest historic journey—an exploration of his father’s wartime experiences as a medic leading up to the Battle of the Bulge in 1944–45, along with stories of other medics in combat throughout history. Barris’s research reveals that this bloodiest of WWII battles was shouldered largely by military medics. Like his father, Alex, medics in combat evacuated the wounded on foot, scrounged medical supplies where there were seemed to be none, and dodged snipers and booby traps on the most frigid and desolate battlefields of Europe. While retracing his father’s wartime experience, the author weaves into his narrative stories about the life-and-death struggles of military medical personnel during a century of service. In this unique front-line recounting of the experiences of stretcher bearers, medical corpsmen, nurses, surgeons, orderlies, dentists and ambulance drivers, Barris explores the evolution of battlefield medicine at such historic engagements as Fredericksburg, Batoche, the Ypres Salient, the Somme, Vimy, Singapore, Dieppe, Normandy, Falaise, Bastogne, Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan. Barris’s sources reveal—like never before—why men and women sporting the red cross on their helmets or sleeves didn’t flee to safety but chose instead to rush to assist.

Doctor Danger Forward

Author : Allen N. Towne
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476616132
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Doctor Danger Forward written by Allen N. Towne and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a combat medical aidman of Company B, 1st Medical Battalion, First Infantry Division, Allen N. Towne experienced some of the pivotal events of World War II. "Doctor B," as his unit was known, was attached to the 18th Regimental Combat Team and moved with them, providing continuous close medical support. Covering both little-known engagements, and such historic moments as the campaign in Sicily and the D Day landings at Omaha Beach, this book is both a memoir and a history of one of the war's most impressive units. The text is based on both official "morning reports" and the author's personal notes, providing accuracy as well as human insight. In Doctor Danger Forward ("danger forward" was the code name of the First Division headquarters), Towne, who received the Bronze Star and Oak Leaf Cluster for his heroism at Omaha Beach and Normandy, chronicles events both epic and intimate, profoundly serious as well as humorous. There are numerous maps and photographs, including many taken by the author.

Healersand Heroes

Author : Thea Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780960057511
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Healersand Heroes written by Thea Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1945-01-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of the Bulge "...was the largest and bloodiest single battle fought by the United States in World War II and the second deadliest battle in American history..." (Wikipedia)Healers and Heroes is the riveting day-by-day account of the movements and actions of 22 men from the 26th (Yankee) Division rifle battalion aid station, from its landing on the French coast of Normandy in September 1944, through heavy combat in Lorraine, Eastern France, to its ultimate test in the Battle of the Bulge across the Ardenne during the winter of 1944-1945, followed by the final breakthrough into Germany and the end of World War II in Europe. The main narrator, Lt. Robert Marshall, was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry for his actions on January 9th, 1945 near North Nothum, Luxemburg. Following Marshall's wounding and evacuation, this narrative was completed by SSGT Walter German.

Combat Medic

Author : Vernon L. Parker
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491708417
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Combat Medic written by Vernon L. Parker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combat Medic shares Corporal Vernon L. Parkers first-person account of World War II. Parker, like many other young men drafted in WWII, was transported from a simple, hard-working life in rural America in 1942 to a complex, stressful environment that would forever change his life. Nothing could have prepared him for the experiences he encountered as a combat medic and ambulance driver with the Third Army, led by Blood and Guts General George S. Patton, Jr. Parker was part of the D-Day invasion. After landing at Normandy, he spent more than ten months on the front lines, supporting the armored divisions through five major campaigns in France, Luxembourg, and Germany. A gifted storyteller, Parker presents a self-deprecating narrative filled with keen insights and colorful descriptions of day-to-day life with fellow infantrymen, officers, civilians, and enemy soldiers. As his saga unfolds, it describes the transformation of a nave and cocky country boy into a battle-weary survivor struggling to maintain his dignity, compassion, and humanity. In Combat Medic, Parker demonstrates a startling recall of events from decades ago, including detailed descriptions of people, places, and even conversationsindicating just how much of an impact those war years had on him.

Praise the Lord and Pass the Penicillin

Author : Dean W. Andersen
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078641670X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Praise the Lord and Pass the Penicillin written by Dean W. Andersen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-09-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was a chemistry student in college on his way home for a visit when news of Pearl Harbor came over the car radio. Like 16 million others from his generation, Dean W. Andersen was called to active military duty and spent the next 38 months of his life as a medic in the Pacific war theater. This memoir shows that the human feelings of fear, loss, anger, hate, patriotism and solidarity were the same then as they have been for every war since. The experiences of the "greatest generation" can comfort and advise young people today who may well be faced with challenges as great as those met so long ago. Based on 93 letters written home to his wife and parents during his time away at war, this book includes information that was disallowed by censors and in some cases, cut out of his correspondence. Though the history of the European theater in World War II is well documented, considerably less information is available about the war in the Pacific. The author recalls the many aspects of his experience--from landing on beaches in the South Pacific amid exotic birds and animals and interacting with the people of New Guinea, to evacuating wounded soldiers through steaming jungles and snake-infested swamps and over high mountains, to facing machine gun fire and watching snipers kill the last man in a column of marchers. The book includes many interesting photographs that have never been published, including images of the Japanese surrender.

Combat Medic Field Reference

Author : Casey Bond
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780763735630
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Combat Medic Field Reference written by Casey Bond and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2005 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to save lives in war, conflicts, and humanitarian interventions requires sophisticated skills above and beyond first aid. Today's Combat Medic must be an expert in emergency care, force health protection, limited primary care, and warrior skills. The Combat Medic Field Reference provides easy access to essential information on triage, treatment, and US Army procedures. This handy pocket-sized reference features waterproof pages for making temporary or permanent notes.

Combat Medic

Author : Isadore L. Valenti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Combat Medic written by Isadore L. Valenti and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women in War

Author : Lizzie Lane
Publisher : Boldwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1837518475
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Women in War written by Lizzie Lane and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She must face the terror of war alone to survive... 1939 - India When headstrong Nadine Burton learns that the woman, she thought was her Indian Ayah was in fact her mother, she rebels against her father in a flamboyant display of disrespect and dares to dance with her two local best friends at a public party. Her father, local official, Roland Frederick Burton is furious. He arranges for her to be exiled from India and married off to Australian Martin McPherson, owner of a rubber plantation north of Singapore. Within a year Singapore falls to the Japanese. Martin is killed and Nadine becomes a prisoner of war, imprisoned in Sumatra, where her dancing skills don’t go unnoticed by her captors. Amidst the horror she finds a friend in a Japanese American major caught up in the war whilst visiting his grandparents in Japan. Much like her, he straddles two cultures and worlds. As their love deepens, boundaries are crossed and together they must unite to survive. Don't miss this emotional and powerful saga about a woman's determination to beat the odds, perfect for fans of Dinah Jefferies and Fiona Valpy. Previously published as 'East of India' by Erica Brown

Infantry Combat Medics in Europe, 1944-45

Author : T. Shilcutt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137347694
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Infantry Combat Medics in Europe, 1944-45 written by T. Shilcutt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medics learned quickly to ignore standing operating procedures in order to save lives but tensions within infantry units created a paradoxical culture of isolation and acceptance. This groundbreaking work examines training and combat experiences of soldiers working in Battalion Aid Stations and those who went as aid men to the line companies.

V-mail

Author : Keith Winston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book V-mail written by Keith Winston and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of letters written by a medic in Europe during World War II.

Looking Back

Author : Ronald E. Coe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781450220217
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Looking Back written by Ronald E. Coe and published by . This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halfway through his undergraduate education at Colby College, Ron enrolled in the U.S. Army Reserve and served during the Second World War as a combat medic with K Company in the 414th Regiment of the 104th Timberwolf Division. As a soldier he was awarded a Purple Heart for a shrapnel injury to the left leg and back and a Silver Star for gallantry in action. his desire in writing this work was not to tell the gory details of war but to tell the emotional and human side of war. These pages could easily be filled with bloody stories of mangled bodies and vivid depictions of the war that are a part of every medic's daily life. While these vivid details remain etched in his memory, to what avail would these horrid memories be today for the reader or for the legacy of those whose lives were taken by war? These stories evoke emotions that cannot help but touch the reader with the humanistic side of this war. these soldiers, whose lives were taken as such young ages and by such cruel and unfair circumstances, were, despite their nationalities, all human beings, They were young men whose lives and potential before the war were not much different than his.

COMBAT MEDIC WWII

Author : John a. Kerner M. D.
Publisher : iBooks
ISBN 13 : 9781596874565
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book COMBAT MEDIC WWII written by John a. Kerner M. D. and published by iBooks. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editorial Reviews From Booklist Called to active duty late in 1943, University of California-San Francisco surgical resident Kerner went to England with the Thirty-fifth Infantry Division in May 1944. Landing in Normandy shortly after D-Day, he was involved in combat for 264 days in France, the Low Countries, and Germany. He glorifies neither himself nor the military but, describing much individual and small-group heroism, shows how hard-pressed American forces, ill-informed about the enemy, often had to throw badly trained replacements into the front lines, where they naturally suffered many casualties. Kerner frequently describes personal highlights, such as diving for cover while assisting a patient and receiving the rarely given Combat Medic Award after riding the outside of a tank blasting its way through the siege at Bastogne. Kerner based the book on his letters that their recipients saved, and thereby writes with more immediacy than mere, perhaps clouded memories might allow. Giving his account unexpected depth is his knowledge of popular piano music and of European furniture and buildings, the latter thanks to his interior decorator mother. William Beatty Copyright (c) American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Product Description Over fifty years after the carnage at Normandy, Dr. John Kerner draws from his wartime journals and letters home to present an insightful portrait of war. Medical units under his charge pushed through western Europe, improving the treatment and transportation of the wounded during some of the most brutal fighting. Amidst the mud and blood of combat, this decorated medical officer shares a time and place when living beyond each day was in serious question. Kerner's account includes some of the greatest moments in World War II: the dramatic breakout of the Normandy hedgerow country, the thrilling dash across France in the summer of 1944, and the siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.