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A Different Face of War - Memories of a Medical Service Corps Officer in Vietnam (Hardcover)
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A Different Face of War - Memories of a Medical Service Corps Officer in Vietnam (Hardcover)
Series: North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series
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A Different Face of War is a riveting account of one American
officer in the Medical Service Corps during the early years of the
Vietnam War. Assigned as the senior medical advisor to the Army of
the Republic of Vietnam in I Corps, an area close to the DMZ, James
G. Van Straten traveled extensively and interacted with military
officers and non-commissioned officers, peasant-class farmers,
Buddhist bonzes, shopkeepers, scribes, physicians, nurses, the
mentally ill, and even political operatives. He sent his wife daily
letters from July 1966 through June 1967, describing in impressive
detail his experiences, and those letters became the primary source
for his memoir. The author describes with great clarity and
poignancy the anguish among the survivors when an American cargo
plane in bad weather lands short of the Da Nang Air Base runway on
Christmas Eve and crashes into a Vietnamese coastal village,
killing more than 100 people and destroying their village; the
heart-wrenching pleadings of a teenage girl that her
shrapnel-ravaged leg not be amputated; and the anger of an American
helicopter pilot who made repeated trips into a hot landing zone to
evacuate the wounded, only to have the Vietnamese insist that the
dead be given a higher priority.
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