Physician Soldier: The South Pacific Letters of Captain Fred Gabriel from the 39th Station Hospital (Volume 166)
Michael P. Gabriel, "Physician Soldier: The South Pacific Letters of Captain Fred Gabriel from the 39th Station Hospital (Volume 166) "
English | ISBN: 1623498945 | 2020 | 442 pages | PDF | 22 MB
English | ISBN: 1623498945 | 2020 | 442 pages | PDF | 22 MB
Frederick R. Gabriel graduated from medical school in 1940, entered the US Army, and was assigned to the newly-created 39th Station Hospital. His letters from the Pacific theater—especially from Guadalcanal, Angaur, and Saipan—capture the everyday life of a soldier physician. His son, Michael P. Gabriel, a professional historian, has faithfully preserved, edited, and annotated that correspondence to add a new dimension to our understanding of the social history of World War II, which he presents here in Physician Soldier: The South Pacific Letters of Captain Fred Gabriel from the 39th Station Hospital.
Like most wartime hospitals, the 39th Station Hospital was positioned in a rear area and saw limited direct action. And like most wartime hospitals, the 39th Station Hospital spent each day confronting the injuries and casualties of frontline combat. Gabriel supervised a ward and oversaw the unit’s laboratory, serving a hospital that provided care to four hundred patients at a time.
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