Oral history interview with Dr. Fred Taylor, 1998 June 26.

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Oral history interview with Dr. Fred Taylor, 1998 June 26.

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Interview with Floyd Taylor, a surgeon and Army veteran (2nd Auxiliary Surgical Group), concerning experiences as a surgeon in North Africa, Italy, and France during World War II. Induction into the U.S. Army Medical Department and assignment to the Surgical Hospital, Fort Meade, 1941; three-month assignment to the Mayo Clinic, 1942; assignment to the Massachusetts General Hospital and the forming of the 2nd Auxiliary Surgical Group, 1942; convoy across the Atlantic and various assignments in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, 1942-43; invasion of Italy, 1943; encounter with Time correspondent Jack Belden; organizing the surgical teams; Salerno invasion, 1943; Winter Line Campaign, 1943-44; Anzio-Nettuno invasion, 1944; performing surgery under combat conditions; Po Valley Campaign, 1945; his role in the compilation of the War Department publication Surgery in World War II (Volume II): General Surgery; first use of penicillin to prevent gas gangrene; value of penicillin on the black market; field X-ray facilities; blood replacement; treatment of abdominal wounds and the use of colostomies; treatment of flesh wounds.

59 leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas. Oral History Collection.

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World War II European Theater Oral History Project.

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Taylor, Floyd, 1913-

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Trotter, Robert

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World War II North Africa Theater Oral History Project.

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United States. Army. Auxiliary Surgical Group, 2nd

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Belden, Jack, 1910-

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Journalist Jack Belden (1910-1989) served as a foreign correspondent in China before and after World War II. He covered the Sino-Japanese War for United Press, International in the 1930s. War reporting assignments took him to Burma, North Africa and Italy for such publications as London Daily Mail, London Daily Herald, Time, and Life Magazine. Belden returned to China in 1946 to write about the Chinese Civil War. He authored three books on Asia: Retreat with Stilwell (1943), Still Time to Die (1...