Doc: Heroic Stories of Medics,Corpsmen,and Surgeons in Combat: Heroic Stories of Medics, Corpsmen, and Surgeons in Combat

The most decorated solder in World War I was not Sergeant Alvin York, as many believe, but a stretcher bearer named Charles Denver Barger. And Barger is just one of the legion of military medical personnel whose lifesaving feats are remembered in this inspiring volume. A tribute to those who tend the sick and wounded under the toughest conditions, Doc is made up of the sometimes humorous, often harrowing, and always heartfelt memoirs of quick-thinking medics and heroic nurses, of surgeons and physicians equipped with only the tools of mercy, performing acts of great courage. Here are the stories of those whose lives were saved as the indefatigable "Doc" braved battle and the elements on Omaha Beach and in Da Nang, on Okinawa and in Korea to treat a shrapnel wound or a napalm burn or?in one remarkable case?give lifesaving instructions to the wounded despite his own fatal injury. Recounted by privates and generals from World War I to Iraq, these stories all have one thing in common: they inspire with the raw truth of men and women working under the greatest stress imaginable to bring their comrades safely home. Read more