Navy crazy
About this book
"Navy Crazy is a different kind of war story depicting the backwardness of military medicine in the mid-1950s. A memoir of a young medical corpsman learning to survive on a locked psychiatric ward for Navy and Marine mental patients at the hospital on the U.S. Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan from 1955-57. Rockland captures the ward’s atmosphere, its flavor, its culture and its language. A raw personal history not filtered, not for the faint of heart"--
Details
- First published
- 2014
- OL Work ID
- OL19993831W
Subjects
United StatesUnited States. NavyNaval and marine HospitalsBiography