Healers in World War II

<p> Dr. Logan W. Hovis parachuted onto Corregidor with the 503rd Regimental Combat Team. Dr. Jeremiah Henry Holleman served with the 89th Division all the way into Germany liberating a concentration camp. Nurse Mary A. Breeding five feet tall 100 pounds served with the 174th General Hospital in France. Dr. Vincent Stephen Conti was awarded a Bronze Star for fighting typhus in Naples Italy.</p><p> These accounts and 31 others covering the heroics of 44 individuals working in the Medical Corps are gathered here by editor Patricia W. Sewell. Firsthand accounts are given by doctors nurses ambulance drivers front-line medics Navy corpsmen medical personnel who served on air evacuation teams and hospital ships and others who functioned in many different capacities. Autobiographies interviews letters and cassette tapes helped compose most of these narratives.</p>