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When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three young children. A year later he was chief surgeon of the 8076th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital constantly near the front lines in Korea. Immediately upon arriving in camp, Apel performed 80 hours of surgery. His feet swelled so badly that he had to cut his boots off, and he saw more surgical cases in those three and a half days than he would have in|9780813120706|Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity Press of Kentucky
ISBN-100813120705
ISBN-139780813120706
eBay Product ID (ePID)979621
Product Key Features
Book TitleMash: an Army Surgeon in Korea
Narrative TypeNonfiction
AuthorPat Apel, Otto F. Apel
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicMilitary / Korean War, Medical, Military
Publication Year1998
TypeAutobiography
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages248 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in