The Other War -- A World War II Journal

“I am a regimental surgeon, and I am informed by dressing wounds and determining the weapons the enemy is using each day. Near the front, doctors to not need to read the terrifying and horrendous reports from 'Intelligence' which scare the pants off of everybody back at Regimental Headquarters. For me the Aid Station is the truth center in combat. Here the wounded, the dying, and the dead are brought. The wounded say how they got 'it' or what 'got them'. The dying have their last say, and, for the observant, the dead may speak even more eloquently than the living.