Neurosurgical notes: World War II

THIS CONCERNS MY activities as a neurosurgeon in the European Theater of Op erations and the North African, Tunisian campaign, during World War II. Act ion during the Battle of the Bulge came later. Our mobile tent hospital, th e 9th Evacuation Hospital, was similar to that depicted in the television s how M*A*S*H. To lend flavor to these comments, I have referred to medical a nd surgical matters in other units as well as our own, mentioned global asp ects of the war, and included vignettes of life off-duty. The story begins after induction into the Army Medical Corps as a volunteer in July 1942 and ends with honorable discharge in April 1946.