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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455169603321

Autore

Fessler Diane Burke

Titolo

No time for fear : voices of American military nurses in World War II / / Diane Burke Fessler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 1996

©1996

ISBN

1-60917-027-X

0-585-27799-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

940.54/7573

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Medical care - United States

World War, 1939-1945

Nurses - United States

Electronic books.

United States Armed Forces Nurses Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword (Senator Daniel K. Inouye); Foreword (Colonel M. Irene Clark Woodman); Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chronology; 1. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: ""Like rats in a trap.""; 2. Pacific Theater of War: ""You can see what men are made of when you get them freshly wounded.""; 3. Japanese Internment Camps, Philippines: ""You don't know what freedom is until you lose it."" ; 4. China, Burma, and India: ""Culture Shock"" ; 5. North Africa, Sicily, and Italy: ""90 mm shells would zoom right over the hospital."" ; 6. England: ""Buzz bombs, blackouts, and barrage balloons""

7. France: ""Normandy, and the Battle of the Bulge""8. Germany: ""V-E Day"" ; 9. Russia: ""The Eastern Command""; 10. The 166th General Hospital: ""Raining again""; 11. Snap Shots: ""You never know what will happen when you join the service."" ; 12. The War Ends: ""I can't express how I felt when I heard it was over."" ; Further Reading; Index