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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Personal narratives, American. --- Flynn, Robert,

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They entered West Point shortly before the end of World War II. Four years later the class of USMA '49 graduated amid peacetime military cutbacks and national complacency. A year later these young officers were plunged into a cruel and unexpected war and were forced to compensate, by valor and leadership, for the nation's unpreparedness. Some called it a U.N. Police Action, but to the 2nd lieutenants fighting as platoon leaders, forward observers, and jet pilots, it was. War to the fullest. Men of '49 served along the Naktong Perimeter, landed at Inchon, flew combat missions against Chinese MiG's, and fought the war of maneuver, and of stalemate, from Pusan to the Yalu. They fought well - some to their death. These are their individual stories, based on the '49ers' own firsthand accounts, of what it was like to enter combat, as one said "green as grass," and suddenly face life-and-death responsibility for American troops entrusted to. Their care. It is the story of men such as Sam Coursen, awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing a wounded comrade at the cost of his own life; of Ranger hero Ralph Puckett, fighting off the initial Chinese onslaught; of D.D. Overton, becoming an ace as he scores his fifth aerial victory; or of Herb Marshburn, dying heroically as he leads men trying to escape a Chinese trap. The author, who went to Korea as an armored officer but wound up leading an infantry platoon, Uses his own story as a narrative framework for this chronicle of the Korean War years. He brings the big picture to life by means of vivid stories of that "forgotten war," told by men who knew it face-to-face at the junior officer level.

Korean War, 1950-1953 --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- East Asia --- Personal narratives, American. --- Personal narratives, American --- United States Military Academy. --- West Point '49 --- West Point Class of 1949

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Rubin, Hank --- Spain --- History --- Participation [American ] --- Personal narratives [American ] --- Medical care --- Rubin, Hank. --- Spain - History - Civil War, 1936-1939 - Personal narratives, American. --- Spain - History - Civil War, 1936-1939 - Medical care.

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""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.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Soldiers --- Physicians. --- Warfare, --- Violence --- Physician --- Personal narratives, American. --- Biography. --- Collins, Lawrence D., --- Correspondence. --- United States. --- U.S. Army --- US Army --- History.

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The novels of Janice Holt Giles grew in part from her marriage to Kentuckian Henry Giles. That union and the couple's settling near Henry's boyhood home in Kentucky provided the source and inspiration for Janice's earliest books and influenced much of her later writing. Hello, Janice tells the story of how their marriage came about.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Novelists, American --- Personal narratives, American. --- Correspondence. --- Giles, Janice Holt --- Giles, Henry, --- Holt, Janice Meredith --- Moore, Janice Holt --- Garth, John, --- Giles, Henry E.