| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 807 U6 C567 1998 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
17709 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - (softbound)
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 807 U6
- Item number - C567 1998
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Condon-Rall, Mary Ellen
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| Title Statement |
- Title - The medical department :
- Remainder of title - medical service in the war against Japan /
- Statement of responsibility, etc - by Mary Elen Condon-Rall & Albert E. Cowdrey
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc - Washington, D.C. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc - Center of Military History, United States Army,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc - 1998
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xx, 485 p. :
- Other physical details - ill. (some col.), col. maps.
- Dimensions - 25 x 17 cm.
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| General Note |
- General note - With colored maps. With index. With frontispiece.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc - "The Medical Department: Medical Service in the War Against Japan is a comprehensive organizational and operational history of medical support in the Asian-Pacific theaters in World War II. The narrative begins with medical prewar planning and ends with the establishment of public health and welfare in occupied Japan. In the context of fierce combat operations waged in the geographical area extending from Australia to Alaska and from the Gilbert Islands to Burma, we focused on how the Army Medical Department coped with the great distance, diverse climates, disease epidemics, grave logistical problems, and rapidly changing circumstances to maintain the fighting strength of American troops. Flexible organization, ingenuity, and the latest scientific advances helped medical personnel to support infantry combat teams on isolated islands or in dense jungles, to adapt medical support to amphibious operations, and to prevent and control disease. Cooperation with the U.S. Navy and with the Allied medical services, especially in the Southwest Pacific, also is covered." [from the preface]
- Summary, etc - "One chapter briefly describes medical preparations for war in the Philippines and problems faced by army doctors on Bataan and Corregidor, and another addresses the medical problems of guerrilla units and prisoners of war. The latter's footnotes serve as a useful bibliography of POW literature. Most accounts state that only one US Army nurse accompanied the Mactan, not two as some authors claim." - Roderick Hall
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - United States. Army
- General subdivision - Medical care
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Medical care
- Geographic subdivision - United States
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Medicine, Military
- Geographic subdivision - United States
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - 20th century
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Cowdrey, Albert E.
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