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A description of selected small unit actions, written primarily to acquaint junior officers, noncommissioned officers, and enlisted soldiers with combat experiences in Korea.

By mid-1942 the Japanese forces were threatening to take the colonial capital of Port Moresby and therefore gain a base to launch their proposed invasion of Australia. The allied forces needed to blunt the Japanese thrust toward Australia and thus protect the transpacific line of communications, as well as to secure a favorable position to take the offensive to the Japanese. Yet this was easier planned than executed; the Australians had been battered...

A comprehensive history of the Army Medical Service during the Korean War that emphasizes events in Korea itself with discussion of the chain of evacuation to the zone of interior, new medical uses of the helicopter, and the development of the mobile army surgical hospital (MASH).