Author: American Aviation Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Army and Navy Journal
Author: Army, Navy, Air Force Journal & Register
Author: American Aviation Historical Society Journal
Author: American Aviation Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
AAHS Journal
Author: American Aviation Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
All Hands
Author: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
Author: Desperate Surgery in the Pacific War
Author: Thomas Helling, M.D.Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476625670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
Caring for the wounded in the World War II Pacific Theater posed serious challenges to doctors and surgeons. The thick jungles, remote atolls and heavily defended Japanese islands of the Pacific presented dangers to medical personnel never before encountered in modern warfare, as did the devastating new kamikaze attacks. Sophisticated treatments, including complex surgery, were by necessity far removed from the fighting, requiring front line doctors to do the minimum--often under fire--to stabilize patients until they could be evacuated: "damage control," it would later be called. Navy doctors responsible for thousands of sailors aboard fleets in battle found caring for the wounded daunting or nearly impossible. Yet to save lives, medical resources had to be kept as close as possible to the action. This book systematically details the efforts and innovations of the doctors and surgeons who worked to preserve life under extreme peril.
Tailhook, Eagles in Flight
Author: Randy W. BaumgardnerPublisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563114038
Category : Air pilots, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Understanding the role of women in Latin American history demands a full examination of their activities in the region's political, economic, and domestic spheres. Toward this end, historian Gertrude M. Yeager has assembled the multidisciplinary collection Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition. The essays in this volume explore the ways in which Latin American women have shaped-and have been shaped by-the traditional practices and ideologies of their cultures. The selections are arranged in two sections: Culture and the Status of Women, and Reconstructing the Past.
Approach
Author: Combat Over Korea
Author: Philip D. ChinneryPublisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1844686205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
This volume chronicles aerial combat of the Korean War through both historical narrative and the personal accounts of Allied airmen and POWs. In Combat Over Korea, military historian Philip D. Chinnery offers a vivid account of aerial warfare above the forbidding terrain of the Korean peninsula. The firsthand accounts presented here run the gamut from air combat between fighters to a B29 Superfortress bomber ditching in the sea, and a C-54 cargo plane being attacked by North Korean fighters. Veterans of the 21 Troop Carrier Squadron, USAF, recount flying into impossibly short strips to rescue thousands of wounded soldiers—a feat for which they received a Presidential Citation. Others tell of their hair-raising escapades after being shot down, while those who were captured tell of the brutal treatment they endured at the hands of the enemy. In a truly rare and remarkable tale, 1st Lieutenant Melvin Shadduck recounts his daring escape from a POW camp.