The Medical Department

When thinking about U.S. military activity in the Pacific during World War II, the United States Navy comes immediately to mind. Students of that conflict are aware, however, that the United States Army also played a crucial role in the Pacific Theater, working in concert with the Army Air Corps, the Marine Corps, and the Navy. The Medical Department chronicles the travails of the Army Medical Department throughout the war, beginning with the bombing of Pearl Harbor in [End Page 818] December 1941 and ending with the incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The book follows a traditional institutional and organizational format that traces the Army Medical Department chronologically and geographically across the Pacific through the various campaigns of the war. This format, which examines military medicine with a lens focused on labyrinthine organizational detail, is the source of the book's greatest strengths and corresponding weaknesses

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