Lingering Fever: A World War II Nurse's Memoir

by LaVonne Telshaw Camp

Overview

During 1945, the author found herself in the monsoon-drenched jungles of Assam, caring for soldiers in the China-Burma-India theater of war. Nothing in her training had prepared her for the tropical diseases or the thatched-roof hospital where men spat on the floor, rats were pervasive, and patients used handguns to chase gigantic cockroaches (and wereas likely to sell their medicine as swallow it).

The experience was made tolerable by Nurse Camp's romance with one of the airmen who flew the Hump, supplying O.S.S. troops behind Japanese lines and carrying General Joseph Stilwell's Chinese troops to fight the battle of North Burma. She accompanied her future husband on some of his missions. Based in part on letters she wrote to her parents, this is the poignant story of one nurse's experience in World War II.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786472857
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date:	08/30/2024
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

LaVonne Telshaw Camp lives in Moorestown, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword by Connie L. Slewitzke, Brigadier General, U.S. Army, Retired     
Introduction     

1 AT WAR IN THE FAR EAST     
2 OUR ASSAM DRAGON HOME     
3 A DATE WITH RED     
4 WHERE IT ALL STARTED     
5 ACROSS THE BLUE PACIFIC     
6 THE 14TH EVACUATION HOSPITAL     
7 NIGHT DUTY ON THE WARD     
8 HORSEBACK RIDING IN THE JUNGLE     
9 A VISIT WITH RED     
10 A TRIP TO CALCUTTA     
11 SHOPPING FOR BOOTS WITH A BRITISH COLONEL     
12 OVER THE HUMP TO CHINA     
13 A VISIT FROM A JUNGLE BEAST     
14 A SURREPTITIOUS FLIGHT TO HSIAN, CHINA     
15 MALAISE AT THE 20TH GENERAL HOSPITAL IN LEDO     
16 A REGULAR ARMY NURSE AT THE 142ND GENERAL HOSPITAL     
17 LIFE IN CALCUTTA     
18 RED STOPS BY     
19 A NEW YEAR’S EVE ESCAPADE     
20 LEFT BEHIND IN INDIA     
21 GOING HOME     

Epilogue     
Index     

Editorial Reviews

a wonderful picture of the living conditions at an evacuation hospital in the jungle.... [Camp] writes colorfully about the Chinese patients, Army life, and her impressions of the setting and the culture...a welcome addition to the collection of works on women’s experiences in World War II”—H-Net Review; “an amazing and well-written narrative…highly recommended”—World War II Air Commando; “a model for personal narratives: competently and interestingly written, fair to her subjects, honestly introspective, carefully researched…. Well illustrated”—The Cellar Book Shop; “every reader, male or female, nurse or patient, will be engrossed in this woman’s war experiences”—CBIVA Sound-Off.

From the Publisher

a model for personal narratives: competently and interestingly written, fair to her subjects, honestly introspective, carefully researched.... Well illustrated

The Cellar Book Shop

an amazing and well-written narrative...highly recommended

World War II Air Commando

a wonderful picture of the living conditions at an evacuation hospital in the jungle.... [Camp] writes colorfully about the Chinese patients, Army life, and her impressions of the setting and the culture...a welcome addition to the collection of works on women's experiences in World War II

H-Net Review