Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Shilcutt, T

Titel

Infantry Combat Medics in Europe, 1944-45 [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2013

Ort / Verlag

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Link zum Volltext

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Chalkboard training -- Baptism of fire -- Combat reality -- The battalion aid station -- Day-to-day health -- Company aid men -- Conclusion.
• Medics learned quickly to ignore standing operating procedures in order to save lives but tensions within infantry units created a paradoxical culture of isolation and acceptance. This groundbreaking work examines training and combat experiences of soldiers working in Battalion Aid Stations and those who went as aid men to the line companies.
• English