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Navy medicine in Vietnam : Passage to Freedom to the fall of Saigon / Jan K. Herman.
LIBRA DS559.44 .H47 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Herman, Jan K.
- Series:
- U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War
- The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Navy.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Medical care.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Medical care.
- Medicine, Naval--United States--History--20th century.
- Medicine, Naval.
- Medicine, Naval--Vietnam--History--20th century.
- United States. Navy--Medical care--Vietnam--History--20th century.
- United States.
- United States. Navy--Medical personnel--Biography.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American.
- History.
- Medical personnel.
- Vietnam.
- Operation Passage to Freedom, 1954-1955.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City.
- United States. Navy--History--Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Naval operations, American.
- History, 20th Century.
- Naval Medicine--history.
- Vietnam Conflict.
- Medical Subjects:
- History, 20th Century.
- United States.
- Vietnam.
- Naval Medicine--history.
- Vietnam Conflict.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- American.
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 50 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
- Other Title:
- Passage to Freedom to the fall of Saigon
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Naval History & Heritage Command, Dept. of the Navy : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2010.
- Contents:
- Station Hospital Saigon
- Hearts and minds
- The medical battalions
- Naval Support Activity Hospital, Danang
- Mercy ships
- "When you lose your corpsman"
- Medevac
- Epilogue
- Sidebars. Eyewitness to a coup ; "Torpedo in the water!" ; Resuscitation of the nearly dead ; Dr. Dinsmore's souvenir ; Frozen blood on trial ; A Navy nurse's recollections ; Field Medical Service School ; Medal of Honor ; Prisoners of war.
- Notes:
- Shipping list no.: 2010-0174-P.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 49-50).
- ISBN:
- 9780945274629
- 0945274629
- OCLC:
- 458583716
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