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56th Evac Hospital : letter...
""I see no way that we junior officers will ever be prepared for any major surgery....I've a premonition that in time it is inevitable. We'll have to perform major surgery on our own, ready or not." Thus wrote Dr. L. D. Collins at the beginning of his tour of duty with the 56th Evacuation Hospital (a mobile tent hospital similar to the M*A*S*H units of Korean War fame), largely staffed by men and women who trained at the Baylor University College of Medicine in Dallas, Texas." "Collins chronicles the experiences of the "Baylor Unit," from its training in Texas, through the relatively uncomplicated months in Morocco and Bizerte, to its service in Italy at Paestum, Dragoni, and worst of all, the desperate "Hell's Half Acre" of Anzio Beach. Because of frequent shelling of the hospitals, patients were known to go AWOL to the front, where it was considered safer. During the Anzio campaign, 92 medical personnel were killed in action, 387 were wounded, 19 captured and 60 more missing in action." --Book Jacket
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monografia Rebiun28124557 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun28124557 941123s1995 txua o 001 0 eng 94045516 0-585-24518-5 UAM 991008078686704211 DLC DLC DLC eng n-us--- 940.54/7573/092 20 Collins, Lawrence D. 1907-) 56th Evac Hospital letters of a WWII army doctor Lawrence D. Collins ; introduction by Carlo W. D'Este. electronic resource] 1st ed [Denton, TX] University of North Texas Press c1995 [Denton, TX] [Denton, TX] University of North Texas Press 1 online resource (xx, 284 p. ) ill. 1 online resource (xx, 284 p. ) Text txt computer c online resource cr War and the Southwest series no. 4 War and the Southwest series The 56th Evac. Hospital Includes index ""I see no way that we junior officers will ever be prepared for any major surgery....I've a premonition that in time it is inevitable. We'll have to perform major surgery on our own, ready or not." Thus wrote Dr. L. D. Collins at the beginning of his tour of duty with the 56th Evacuation Hospital (a mobile tent hospital similar to the M*A*S*H units of Korean War fame), largely staffed by men and women who trained at the Baylor University College of Medicine in Dallas, Texas." "Collins chronicles the experiences of the "Baylor Unit," from its training in Texas, through the relatively uncomplicated months in Morocco and Bizerte, to its service in Italy at Paestum, Dragoni, and worst of all, the desperate "Hell's Half Acre" of Anzio Beach. Because of frequent shelling of the hospitals, patients were known to go AWOL to the front, where it was considered safer. During the Anzio campaign, 92 medical personnel were killed in action, 387 were wounded, 19 captured and 60 more missing in action." --Book Jacket English Collins, Lawrence D. 1907)- Correspondence Collins, Lawrence D. 1907-) Estados Unidos. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 56th- History Estados Unidos. Army- Biography Estados Unidos. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 56th Estados Unidos. Army World War, 1939-1945- Personal narratives, American Soldiers- United States- Biography Physicians Warfare Collected Correspondence Personal Narrative Electronic books 0-929398-83-1