Qld: Time catches up with World War I veteran

AAP General News (Australia);  December 30, 2002 ;     202 words ...00-00-0000 Qld: Time catches up with World War I veteran By Chris Herde BRISBANE, Dec 30 AAP - One of Australia's last surviving World War I veterans, Ted Smout, is recovering in hospital after...with a grandfather clock. Mr Smout, who served with the army medical corps in France and ...

Memories of World War 2 blitz recalled

The Press;  January 23, 1997 ;     62 words ......Howarth, 73, of Christchurch, is reacquainted with a World War 2 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun and searchlight at Air Force World yesterday. Mr Howarth served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in London during the blitz, when these weapons...

An officer and a lady: Canadian military nursing: more than 4,000 civilian...

Esprit de Corps;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Nursing and the Second World War. Written by Cynthia Toman...2008). During the Second World War, more than 4,000 civilian...By the time of the First World War, diverse groups of women...as part of the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) in 1904, civilian...the CAMC ...

Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I

Nursing History Review;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......in the U.S. Army during World War I By Carol R. Byerly (New...America's participation in World War I. Using numerous primary...story of the pandemic and army medical officer Ward J. McNeal's...It also demonstrates how army medical officers, occupying a ...

A harrowing view of World War II through the eyes of combat artists

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  May 10, 2000 ;     700+ words ...On Art A harrowing view of World War II through the eyes of combat artists...totally unglamorized view of combat in World War II, look no further than "They Drew...efforts. He was sketching a group of Army medical corpsmen washing blood off stretchers...the self-sacrificing exploits of ...

From the Army Acquisition Executive: Reaping the benefits of Army medical...

Army AL & T;  May 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......many contributions that the Army medical research community has made...This was the start of the Army's study of the mosquito and...to dread disease. During World War II, the Army established a continuing...each new method of attack. Army researchers are always on guard. The ...

Administrator Glenn E. Tripp; World War II POW

The Washington Post;  April 3, 2007 ;     240 words ......security work and who was taken prisoner by the Japanese after defending Wake Island during World War II, died March 24 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. He had sepsis. Cmdr. Tripp, a Springfield resident, served in the Navy...

JAMES KELLEY, 90, WORLD WAR II VETERAN

The Boston Globe;  February 20, 2003 ;     122 words ......as a talented musician in the area before entering the US Army during World War II. He entered the Army in 1942 serving as a surgical technician with the US Army Medical Corps in Iceland and England. After his military service, Mr. Kelley was...

The images of war. (Japan observes anniversary of the end of World War II...

The Economist (US);  December 10, 1994 ;     477 words ......monument to Japan's memory of the second world war. It is a small chamber of horrors: a...cover up the history of Unit 731, an army medical team that conducted grotesque experiments...five years ago at the site of the old army medical school in Tokyo, which used to be Unit...

Shell Shock: Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First...

Albion;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......and the British Soldiers of the First World War. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xi...account of British soldiers of the First World War and their experience of shell shock...attempts of unsure and inexperienced Royal Army Medical Corps doctors to find answers to the...six months as a ...

New York chapter history of Military Medicine Award: U.S. Army Medical...

Military Medicine;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...U.S. Army Medical Helicopters in the Korean...in military medicine, the Army Medical Service had not seen such...Advances Ten years after World War I, the first rotary-wing...evacuation unit."1 During World War II, medical evacuation continued...evacuations from the front ...

SCHOOMAKER ASSUMES COMMAND OF ARMY MEDICAL COMMAND

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ...The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command issued...news release: By Jerry HarbenU.S. Army Medical Command LTG Eric B. Schoomaker assumed...Richard A. Cody passed the flag of U.S. Army Medical Command to Schoomaker, who replaces...

2 World War II survivors tell of Japanese atrocities

Filipino Reporter;  February 26, 2004 ;     207 words ......Teague of Kensington, who were in the Philippines during World War II. The two came to the school as part of a presentation on World War II field hospitals. As part of their presentation the Teagues told students how Japanese soldiers in World War II did not recognize international ...

World War I: Evelyn Martha Wilson, RRC + Bar, MiD.

Esprit de Corps;  August 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...In the First World War, 3141 nursing sisters wore the badge of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, 2504 of whom served overseas. Forty-s...Stamford, Connecticut, to join the Canadian Army Medical Corps of the Canadian Expeditionary Force...

They live a little bit of the big war: World War II reenactors bring home...

Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL);  August 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ......ammo belts. They look as if they're ready to fight World War II all over again. A senior officer steps forward...clusters of a major and the dress uniform of the U.S. Army Rangers, circa 1942. He calls the small troop to attention...at the doorway of the Orlando VA Medical Center are World ...