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Book Review: Blood on China Beach

  • Operating Room Charlie Med. Surrounding sandbags offer protection from incoming mortars.

  • Air force casualty-evacuation plane loading patients for trip to air force hospital in Philippines.

  • Operating Room China Beach. Note foxhole near entrance and sandbags to afford some protection from incoming mortars.

  • Operating Room China Beach one day after Viet Cong attack and overrun.

  • Marine victim of blast injury to head (postoperative).

  • Child, postoperative, following brain injury operation. China Beach.

  • Neurosurgical operation in progress, China Beach.

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Rob Lawrence is a featured speaker at EMS World Expo , scheduled for September 8–12 in Las Vegas, NV, where he will discuss how to create and implement effective public safety campaigns. No sooner had I got halfway through the prologue of Blood on China Beach by Paul Pitlyk than I realized I would not be able to put this soon-to-be classic down. British General Rupert Smith said, “There is only one certain outcome of any plan, and that is casualties.” The U.S. operational plan...
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