Battalion surgeon with the Marines: letters from a doctor with an infantry regiment in the Pacific, in World War II : [typescript] ; 1944 Jan. 10-1945 Oct. 23.

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Battalion surgeon with the Marines: letters from a doctor with an infantry regiment in the Pacific, in World War II : [typescript] ; 1944 Jan. 10-1945 Oct. 23.

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Seventy-four transcribed and annotated letters sent by H.S. Mustard to his parents describing life as a military physician in the Pacific theater. Topics addressed include accounts of training in U.S.; descriptions of deployments to Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands), Guam, Iwo Jima, and elsewhere; and observations on progress of the war, local conditions, and his fellow soldiers, including reports of meeting fellow South Carolinians stationed in the South Pacific. Letters were transcribed by Mustard's father, ca. 1963, in months following death of H.S. Mustard, Jr., the veteran of World War II; collection includes introduction and epilogue written by Mustard, Sr., and letter, 3 Apr. 2000, written by Harry S. Mustard, III.

[iv], 136 : ill. ; 28 cm.

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