Military Medicine to Win Hearts and Minds
Subtitle: Aid to Civilians in the Vietnam War (Modern Southeast Asia Series)
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: October 18, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780896725324
Subjects: Vietnam; Military - General; Medical / Nursing; History - Military / War; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Military; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Military - Vietnam War; History; Medical care; Health Risk Assessment
First sentence: Young naval lieutenant Dr. Thomas Dooley participated in Operation Passage to Freedom, the massive evacuation of Northern Catholics from North Vietnam to the South following the Geneva Accords of 1954, providing medical care to the refugees both aboard ship and in the camps in South Vietnam.1