Flight surgeon : a war diary 1941-1945 / Colonel Thurman Shuller, US Army Medical Corps ; edited by Vernon L. Williams.

"Colonel Thurman Shuller's war diary traces his story from Las Vegas Army Airfield in the summer of 1941 to the desperate days of the air war in Europe. The group surgeon character in the motion picture Twelve O'clock High was based on Shuller during his time as Group Surgeon of the famed 306th Bomb...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shuller, Thurman (Author)
Other Authors: Williams, Vernon L. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Fort Worth, Texas : TCU Press, [2021]
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Physical Description:1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a A Note from the Diary's Author -- Prologue to War, September 5, 1941-July 31, 1942 -- A Doctor Goes to War, August 1, 1942-May 12, 1943 -- A Doctor at War, May 13, 1943-March 9, 1944 -- A Doctor in the ETO, March 10, 1944-December 30, 1944 -- Hostilities Cease, January 1, 1945-October 20, 1945 -- Farewell to England, 6 October 21, 1945-December 9, 1945 -- Epilogue -- Endnotes -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Thurman Shuller Chronology -- Appendix B: Shuller's Plea to Limit Missions -- Appendix C: Shuller's Arguments Against Maximum Effort Policy. 
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