In the Company of Marines: A Surgeon Remembers Vietnam

• Author(s): James O. Finnegan,
• Publisher: Lulu Press, Incorporated
• Pages: 202
• ISBN_10: 0557066395
  ISBN_13: 9780557066391
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Asian & Asian American , Biography & Autobiography / Military , Biography & Autobiography / Medical (incl. Patients) , History / Wars & Conflicts / Vietnam War ,

Description:... From September of 1967 until September of 1968, Dr. Jim Finnegan served as combat surgeon assigned to the Third Marine Division [at Charlie Med on the Marine base at Khe Sanh and Delta Med at the Marine base in Dong Ha] in the northernmost provinces of South Vietnam. During the siege of Khe Sanh from January through April of 1968, he was the commanding officer of a surgical team consisting of four Navy physicians and twenty-six Navy corpsmen [at Charlie Med, Khe Sanh and Delta Med, Dong Ha] which treated over 2,500 wounded Marines"--Page 4 of cover