Hospital Ships Of World War Ii

Author : Emory A. Massman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476609632
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hospital Ships of World War II written by Emory A. Massman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first U.S. hospital ship of World War II saw service in mid-1943. By war's end, the fleet had carried nearly 17,000 sick and wounded home. This richly illustrated work covers all 39 ships that served as U.S. Navy and Army hospital ships during World War II. Each ship's history is fully covered, concentrating on the ship's hospital service. Information is presented on each ship's personnel, the handling of patients, types of wounds and diseases encountered, and life aboard the ships. General layouts of the ships and technical data are also included. Biographies are provided on persons for whom ships were named.

Author : H. C. Daly
Publisher : Balboa Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780935902174
Total Pages : 735 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The U. S. S. Solace Was There written by H. C. Daly and published by Balboa Publishing. This book was released on 1991-06-01 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harold Cre Larson
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022887626
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Army Hospital Ships in World War II. written by Harold Cre Larson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book provides readers with a detailed account of the crucial role that hospital ships played in the Allied victory in World War II. The author explores the history and development of these ships, and provides gripping firsthand accounts of their experiences in action. With its engaging writing style, meticulous research, and helpful study aids, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in military history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Dale P. Harper
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1552126285
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Too Close for Comfort written by Dale P. Harper and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the articles of the Geneva Convention, hospitals, hospital ships, and medical facilities are not to be subjected to enemy attacks during the war time. On April 28, 1945, 50 miles south of Okinawa a Japanese kamikaze pilot ignored this fact and crashed his plane into the U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort. This book gives a complete account of the attack and the repercussions that followed.

Author : Harold Larson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780395005
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Army Hospital Ships in World War II written by Harold Larson and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published n 1944. Looks at the various issues involved with the evacuation of the sick and wounded from the battlefield. Discusses the complex process of evacuation as it pertains to water transportation. Please note this a reprint from the archives and while we have made extensive efforts to clean up text and photographs the quality sometimes reflects the age of the original document and the typefaces available. Photographs and maps are included but there may be inconsistencies in appearances. These are not cheap OCR editions and the book is checked for legibility throughout.

Author : Harold Larson
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781497360006
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Army Hospital Ships in World War II written by Harold Larson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-16 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is based almost entirely upon the files of the War Department, supplemented in some instances by information obtained orally from certain individuals with special knowledge of the Army hospital ships. In particular, considerable assistance was derived from the staff and records of the Water Division, Office of the Chief of Transportation, Army Service Forces. In addition, the Medical Regulating Officer, Office of the Surgeon General, Army Service Forces, placed his inactive files at the disposal of the writer. At present, five additional vessels have been selected for conversion into Army hospital ships. The conversion program, as extended, will not be accomplished until the spring or early summer of 1945, but represents no radical departure from the procedure already developed. Accordingly, it has appeared advisable to close the account at this point, since further developments may be incorporated in an addendum of a later date. The evacuation of the sick and wounded is a perennial problem in the history of warfare. The initial phase of such evacuation, namely, the assembling of patients from the battlefield, has long been and still is the task of the litter bearers. To carry on beyond the preliminary phase of collecting the sick and the wounded, the United States Army, in common with other armies, has resorted to various forms of transport ranging from animal and motor-drawn ambulances to hospital trains, vessels, and airplanes—all designed to bring the patients to a place where they can receive adequate medical attention. The purpose of this brief account is to describe the complex process of evacuation solely as it involves water transportation and, more particularly, the use during the current conflict of Army hospital ships enjoying a protected status under international agreements. Important though their role is, it should be understood at the outset that Army hospital ships return to the United States only a small portion of the sick and wounded of the armed forces. Practically every returning Army transport carries patients; and the Air Transport Command, Army Air Forces, brings back the sick and wounded regularly by airplane. Moreover, in addition to its own fleet of convention-protected hospital ships, the Navy utilizes hospital spaces on its own transports for the evacuation of patients by water. For evacuation by air the Navy relies upon the Naval Air Transportation Service.

Author : Stephen McGreal
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844689557
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War on Hospital Ships, 1914–1918 written by Stephen McGreal and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often said The first casualty of war is the truth and there is no better example of this than the furore caused by the claims and counterclaims of the British and German Governments at the height of the First World War. Wounded allied personnel were invariably repatriated by hospital ships, which ran the gauntlet of mined waters and gambled on the humanity of the U-Boat commanders. For, contrary to the terms of the Geneva Convention, on occasions Germany had sunk the unarmed hospital ships under the pretense they carried reinforcement troops and ammunition. The press seized on these examples of Hun Barbarity, especially the drowning of noncombatant female nurses. The crisis heightened following the German Governments 1 February 1917 introduction of unrestricted naval warfare. The white painted allied hospital ships emblazoned with huge red crosses now became in German eyes legitimate targets for the U-Boats. As the war on the almost 100 strong fleet of hospital ships intensified the British threatened reprisals against Germany, in particular an Anglo-French bombing raid upon a German town. Undeterred the Germans stepped up their campaign sinking two hospital ships in swift succession. Seven hospital ships struck mines and a further eight were torpedoed. Faced with such a massacre of the innocents Britain decided her hospital ships, painted and brightly lit in accordance with the Geneva Convention, could no longer rely on this immunity. The vessels were repainted in drab colors, defensively armed and sailed as ambulance transports among protected convoys. Germany had successfully banished hospital ships from the high seas.

Author : Roland Wilbur Charles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Troopships of World War II written by Roland Wilbur Charles and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book contains authentic photographs and salient facts covering 358 troopships used in World War II. In addition, other vessels of miscellaneous character, including Victory and Liberty type temporary conversions for returning troops, are listed in the appendices ..."--Pref.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The War on Hospital Ships written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack Woolman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781858581972
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hospital Ship written by Jack Woolman and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unusually named HMHS Tjitjalengka was a brand new Dutch ship built for the Java-Japan trip but requisitioned by The Royal Navy after conversion in the USA around the time of Pearl Harbour. The author combines anecdotes of naval life with descriptions of the ship's voyages as a hospital.