Healers in World War II:
Oral Histories of Medical Corps Personnel
by Pat Sewell

Book Description: Dr. Logan W. Hovis parachuted onto Corregidor with the 503rd Regimental Combat Team. Dr. Jeremiah Henry Holleman served with the 89th Division all the way into Germany, liberating a concentration camp. Nurse Mary A. Breeding, five feet tall, 100 pounds, served with the 174th General Hospital in France. Dr. Vincent Stephen Conti was awarded a Bronze Star for fighting typhus in Naples, Italy.

These accounts and 31 others covering the heroics of 44 individuals working in the Medical Corps are gathered here by editor Patricia W. Sewell. Firsthand accounts are given by doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, front-line medics, Navy corpsmen, medical personnel who served on air evacuation teams and hospital ships, and others who functioned in many different capacities. Autobiographies, interviews, letters and cassette tapes helped compose most of these narratives.

Table of Contents for
Healers in WWII: Oral Histories of Medical Corps Personnel

1. A Medic Tells His Story
   Les Habegger
2. Recollections of an Infantry Battalion Doctor
   Frank R. Ellis, M.D.
3. Dr. Kurt Lekisch
   Sol Schwartz
4. "How Long You Been Here, Boy?"
   Alan King, M.D.
5. The Neapolitan Typhus Epidemic
   Vincent Stephen Conti, M.D.
6. One Hundred Pounds and Five Feet Tall
   Mary A. Breeding
7. Beanie, Ernie, and More
   James marion Kirtley, M.D.
8. From Med School to France
   Shelly M. Strain, M.D.
9. Nearsighted and Flatfooted
   Stanley A. Kornblum, M.D.
10. A World War II Remembrance of Luis Castillo
    Al Castillo
11. Picking Up the Dead
    Grady Forsyth
12. The Miracle Day
    Desmond T. Doss
13. Stateside
    George S. Barnes, M.D.
14. From the States to Down Under
    Samuel E. Warshauer, M.D.
15. Into Enemy Fire
    Arthur V. O'Connell
16. ASTRP and an "Opportunity"
    Daniel Seftel, M.D.
17. A Physician Scientist in the Army
    Richard J. Bing, M.D.
18. Corregidor
    Logan W. Hovis, M.D.
19. Medical Supply
    Glen A. Fookes
20. An Unbroken Chain
    Jeremiah Henry Holleman, M.D.
21. Minefield
    Gregory S. Kirchner
22. "Young and Foolish as We Were"
    Daniel E. DiIaconi, M.D.
23. Ambulance Driver in the Italian Campaign
    Des Ball
24. "I Was Doing Something Good"
    Daniel Goolsbee
25. "You Did What You Had to Do"
    Julia Parrish Sadler
26. The BalkanNurses
    Judith A. Bellafair and Diane Burke Fessler
27. POW of the Germans
    Richard John Feltham, M.D.
28. The CBI Theater
    Thomas J. McKenna, M.D.
29. H.M.N.Z.H.S. Maunganui
    Herbert Matthew Robson and Grace Robson
30. The U.. Army Nurse Corps
    Lee Threlkeld Jansak
31. Physical Therapy in the South Pacific
    Forrest Walker
32. British Red Cross Nurse
    Mona Stanton
33. Treating the Wounded in the Battle of the Bulge
    Henry M. Hills, Jr., M.D.
34. Memories of Naval Medicine in World War II
    Norton L. Francis, M.D.
35. More on the War
    Various Authors

Hardcover: 288 pages ;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.62 x 9.03 x 6.00
Publisher: McFarland & Company;
ISBN: 0786409339; (July 2001)