Camp, LaVonne Telshaw. Lingering Fever: A World War II Nurse’s Memoir. Jefferson, NC, McFarland. 1997. China-Burma-India
The CBI theater of war is seldom mentioned when WWII is talked about, but it was a major part of the war against Japan. Nurses were stationed in many areas of these countries and this book is the experience of one Army nurse who writes of “climate that wrested our energy and vitality, diseases that the western world rarely heard of or had ways to treat, loneliness that sapped our spirits, and encounters with other cultures that were completely foreign to anything we had known.” Among other stories, reading about the black leopard that climbed in her bed one night will take your breath away.
Also see books by Moseley, who was a CBI Flight Nurse, Hager, Korson, and Fessler.
The books mentioned in this blog are available through the Interlibrary loan dept. of local libraries, and can be purchased from Online used book dealers.
No Time for Fear: Nurses of World War II 