Jan K. Herman, Naval History Heritage and Command, United States Department of the Navy

Navy Medicine in Vietnam

Passage to Freedom to the Fall of Saigon`

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With FULL COLOR maps and illustrations. 

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Military Bookshop
• Seitenzahl: 60
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 216mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 179g
• ISBN-13: 9781782663492
• ISBN-10: 1782663495
• Artikelnr.: 37597156

Autorenporträt

Jan K. Herman is Historian of the Navy Medical Department and author of "Battle Station Sick Bay: Navy Medicine in World War II, " "Frozen in Memory: U.S. Navy Medicine in the Korean War," and "Navy Medicine in Vietnam: Oral Histories from Dien Bien Phu to the Fall of Saigon." He earned a BA and MA from the University of New Hampshire where he was a Ford Foundation Teaching Fellow. Mr. Herman also served in the U.S. Air Force from 1968 to 1972 before joining the Department of State as a public information officer and writer. He also served as staff assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and the Department Spokesman.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface     
1. Passage to Freedom     
2. An American War     
3. Hearts and Minds     
4. Medical Battalions in a Frontless War     
5. Intrepid Surgeons     
6. Corpsman Up!     
7. Medal of Honor     
8. Naval Support Activity Hospital Danang     
9. Ships of Mercy     
10. Holocaust on Yankee Station     
11. Hue     
12. Khe Sanh     
13. Prisoner of War     
14. Mending     
15. Full Circle     
Epilogue: The Journey Back     
Appendix 1: The Cast     
Appendix 2: Medal of Honor Citations     
Appendix 3: Small Arms     
Glossary     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index