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Call sign "Dustoff" : a history of U.S. Army aeromedical evacuation from Conception to Hurricane Katrina / by Darrel Whitcomb.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Whitcomb, Darrel D., 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army--Transport of sick and wounded--History.
- United States.
- United States. Army. Medical Service Corps--History.
- United States Army. Medical Service Corps.
- United States. Army.
- United States. Army. Medical Service Corps.
- Helicopter ambulances--United States--History.
- Helicopter ambulances.
- Air Ambulances--history.
- Military Medicine--history.
- Wounds and Injuries--therapy.
- Armed Forces--Transport of sick and wounded.
- Medical Subjects:
- United States Army. Medical Service Corps.
- Air Ambulances--history.
- Military Medicine--history.
- Wounds and Injuries--therapy.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings)) : illustrations (some color), maps
- Place of Publication:
- Frederick, MD : Office of the Surgeon General, Borden Institute, [2011]
- Summary:
- "Explores the conceptualization of the initial attempts to use aircraft for evacuation, reviews its development and maturity through conflicts, and focuses on the history of the MEDEVAC post-Vietnam through Hurricane Katrina"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Fulfilling a need : from Conception to combat
- An honorable heritage
- From Korea through Vietnam
- Domestic duties & contingency operations
- Quiet years, 1973-1980
- New challenges : near and afar, 1981-1990
- An angry decade
- Desert Shield/Desert Storm, 1990-1991
- Force reductions, 1992-1995
- The Balkans, 1992-ongoing
- Into the millennium : new challenges, at home and abroad
- To 9/11, 2000-2001
- Again, into battle, 2001-2003
- Aviation transformation and domestic operations, 2002-2005
- Warriors of compassion
- Appendices
- List of MEDEVAC units
- Typical history of an ARNG MEDEVAC units
- MEDEVAC losses post-Vietnam era through Operation Iraqi Freedom 1.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed on May 19, 2011).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Whitcomb, Darrel D., 1947- Call sign "Dustoff"
- OCLC:
- 725898516
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