Sites about medics suggestion

[Zecristo]

For those keen on learning something more about the history of medics on WW II, and following my self-interested view as a retired military medic, I suggest viewing of the following 2 sites.
For American Medics:
home.att.net/~steinert/
In American English language
For German Medics:
www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Soldat/Sanitatsversorgung.htm
In Deutsche sprache (in German language)

Yours: Zecristo O Messias Dos Ateus

[Ricardus]

Actually I have a great paper at home about Russian women 'assault medics' of WW2. Don't know if I can get electronic copy to you.

Turns out that as a proportion of combat casualties suffered by the Red Army (on a unit basis) theirs were amongst the highest since they were expected to join an assault (and were thus armed with automatic weapons) and take wounded men back to safety (still armed) when necessary which, as I'm sure you know, is an extremely hazardous undertaking (turning your back on an enemy whilst under fire)

Fascinating stuff

Ricardus

[Zecristo]

Fortunately I never got under fire.
The closest I was to that was when I was detached (on account of being able to talk some english) along with an ambulance driver to serve as an emergency evacuation team for a detachment of the British Royal Marines who were at the time carrying a live fire exercise on the ranges outside where my unit was stationed. That is, at St. Margarida very near the exact centre of Portugal.
Though, I remember quite vividly a strange absent look and a sometimes weird behavior on part of an old Adjudant Sergeant which served 3 2-year commissions on Portugal's colonial war back in the sixties and seventies as a field nurse (I think the term applies both to male and female).
As to the russian girls, all things WW II are interesting to me and most of all regarding medics work.
Recently I've read a book by General (or Marshall) Eremenko who led the defense of Stalingrad and he doesn't forget to mention one story of one of those girls having about 20 wounded men to take back to safety and after being wounded by rifle fire blowing herself with a grenade along with the german soldiers aproaching her. All that not in a computer game...

Yours: Zecristo O Messias Dos Ateus