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Battalion Surgeon

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
232 Seiten
Englisch
Mayo Clinic Presserschienen am11.07.2024
A powerful first-person memoir of a physician who served as a combat medic in World War II. The book is being updated and republished to coincide with the 80th anniversary of D-Day.mehr

Produkt

KlappentextA powerful first-person memoir of a physician who served as a combat medic in World War II. The book is being updated and republished to coincide with the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
Details
ISBN/GTIN979-8-88770-038-0
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum11.07.2024
Seiten232 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 150 mm, Höhe 232 mm, Dicke 18 mm
Gewicht340 g
Artikel-Nr.61306985
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GenreRomane Taschenbuch

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword  Part One Chapter 1: Introduction to the Army  Chapter 2: Atlantic Crossing . Chapter 3: England Part Two Chapter 4: Into France  Chapter 5: Baptism of Fire  Chapter 6: Across the Cotentin Peninsula Chapter 7: Hill 122 and Beyond Chapter 8: The Dash Across France  Chapter 9: The Battle for Metz and Lorraine Chapter 10: The Battle of the Bulge Chapter 11: Through the Siegfried Line Chapter 12: The Second Crossing of the Moselle . . . . . . . . . . . 00 Part Three Chapter 13: Across the Rhine  Chapter 14: The Dash Across Germany Chapter 15: Czecho-Slovakia and the End of the Trail Part Four Chapter 16: Occupation of Germany  Chapter 17: Home Againmehr

Autor

William M. McConahey, Jr., was born on May 7, 1916, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received the B.A. degree in 1938 from Washington and Jefferson College and the M.D. degree in 1942 from Harvard University. He was an intern at Philadelphia General Hospital from 1942 to 1943.
During World War II, Dr. McConahey entered active duty on July 17, 1943, and served as a battalion surgeon in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army, which is the subject of this book. Assigned to the 90th Infantry Division, he landed in the Allied assault against Nazi-held Fortress Europe on D-Day Plus 2: Thursday, June 8, 1944. Dr. McConahey served in France, Germany and Czechoslovakia and attained the rank of captain. Battalion Surgeon concludes with his honorable discharge on September 28,1945.
Dr. McConahey entered Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education in 1946 and received the M.S. degree in medicine from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He was appointed a Mayo Clinic consultant in medicine in 1949 and served as chair of the Division of Endocrinology from 1968 to1974. Dr. McConahey advanced through the academic ranks to become professor of medicine at Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, University of Minnesota, in 1966 and Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in 1973.
He had a special interest in diseases of metabolism and the endocrine system and published extensively in medical journals and textbooks. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Thyroid Association in 1973 and the Alumni Association of Washington and Jefferson College in 1978. Dr. McConahey retired from Mayo Clinic in December 1985 and died on April 22, 2004.
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