A review by gimpyknee
Combat nurses of World War II by Wyatt Blassingame, Wyatt Blassingame

4.0

Blassingame errs when he repeatedly refers to Army medics as corpsmen. They are not. The Army has medics. The Navy has corpsmen. It is actually frowned upon for a hospital corpsman to be referred to as a medic. Corpsman is their identity, one which they have held since 1898 with the establishment of the Navy Hospital Corps. Navy Hospital corpsmen are the most highly decorated rate in the U.S. Navy. I am the son of a retired Chief Hospital Corpsman. My brother and I are Vietnam War era 2nd Class Hospital Corpsmen.