medicine cabinets
navy medicine in vietnam oral histories from dien bien phu to the fall of saigon
the book chronicles the story of the navy medical departments participation in vietnam beginning with the navys rescue of the french survivors of the battle of dien bien phu in 1954 and ending with the navys rescue of vietnamese refugees fleeing the fall of south vietnam in 1975 . even before marines stepped ashore in 1965 navy medicine had established itself in south vietnam since two years earlier navy medical personnel converted an old saigon apartment house into station hospital saigon . when american involvement reached its peak in 1968 the 750 bed naval support activity hospital danang nsah was in full operation and two hospital ships the uss repose and the uss sanctuary cruised offshore often only a 30 minute medevac flight from the battlefield . whether the situation called for saving the lives of injured sailors aboard a burning aircraft carrier or treating a critically wounded marine for shock in the rubble strewn streets of hue navy medical personnel were in viet
the book chronicles the story of the navy medical departments participation in vietnam beginning with the navys rescue of the french survivors of the battle of dien bien phu in 1954 and ending with the navys rescue of vietnamese refugees fleeing thefall of south vietnam in 1975 provided by publisher .