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When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three young children. A year later he was chief surgeon of the 8076th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital constantly near the front lines in Korea. Immediately upon arriving in camp, Apel performed 80 hours of surgery. His feet swelled so badly that he had to cut his boots off, and he saw more surgical cases in those three and a half days than he would have in a year back in Cleveland. There were also the lighter moments. When a Korean came to stay at the 8076th, word of her beauty spread so rapidly that they needed MPs just to direct traffic. Apel also recalls a North Korean aviator, nicknamed Bedcheck Charlie, who would drop a phony grenade from an open-cockpit biplane, a story later filmed for the television series. He also tells of the day the tent surrounding the womens shower was accidentally blown off by a passing helicopter. In addition to his own story, Apel details the operating conditions, workload, and patient care at the MASH units while revealing the remarkable advances made in emergency medical care. MASH units were the first hospitals designed for operations close to the front lines, and from this particularly difficult vantage, their medical staffs were responsible for innovations in the use of antibiotics and blood plasma and in arterial repair. On film and television, MASH doctors and nurses have been portrayed as irreverent and having little patience with standard military procedures. In this powerful memoir, Apel reveals just how realistic these portrayals were.

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title:MASH : An Army Surgeon in Korea
author:Apel, Otto F.; Apel, Pat
publisher:University Press of Kentucky
isbn10 | asin:0813120705
print isbn13:9780813120706
ebook isbn13:9780813170572
language:English
subjectApel, Otto F.,--1923- , Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American, Korean War, 1950-1953--Medical care--United States, Mobile hospitals--Korea (South) , United States.--Army--Surgeons--Biography.
publication date:1998
lcc:DS921.6.A58 1998eb
ddc:951.904/2/092
subject:Apel, Otto F.,--1923- , Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American, Korean War, 1950-1953--Medical care--United States, Mobile hospitals--Korea (South) , United States.--Army--Surgeons--Biography.
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MASH
An Army Surgeon in Korea
Otto F. Apel Jr., M.D. and Pat Apel
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Publication of this volume was made possible in part
by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Copyright 1998 by The University Press of Kentucky
Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth,
serving Bellarmine College, Berea College, Centre
College of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University,
The Filson Club Historical Society, Georgetown College,
Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky State University,
Morehead State University, Murray State University,
Northern Kentucky University, Transylvania University,
University of Kentucky, University of Louisville,
and Western Kentucky University.
All rights reserved
Editorial and Sales Offices: The University Press of Kentucky
663 South Limestone Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40508-4008
02 01 00 99 98 5 4 3 2
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Apel, Otto F., 1923
Mash: an army surgeon in Korea / Otto F. Apel and Pat Apel.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8131-2070-5 (hard cover : alk. paper)
1.Apel, Otto F., 1923. 2. Korean War, 19501953Personal
narratives, American. 3. Korean War, 19501953Medical care
United States. 4. Mobile hospitalsKorea (South). 5. United
States. ArmySurgeonsBiography. I. Apel, Pat, 1948
II. Title.
DS921.6.A58 1998
951.904'2'092dc21 98-15170
This book is printed on acid-free recycled paper meeting
the requirements of the American National Standard
for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials.
Picture 3
Manufactured in the United States of America
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For Jeep, the young patron of the playing field,
and Matt, the Airborne Ranger,
our beloved of the next generation.
May they never have to do this.
Page vii
Contents
Preface
ix
Maps
xvi
1. From the Gridiron to the Iron Triangle
1
2. ''The Spirit of '76"
18
3. The MASH in Action
43
4. The Mechanized Angels
66
5. Where We Lived
91
6. In the OR
126
7. "We're Going to Be Court-Martialed"
149
8. The Friends We Left behind
178
9. Rotating Out
203
Bibliography
217
Index
220

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Preface
One great irony of warfare is that the more humanity increases its proficiency to inflict injury upon human beingsthrough technology, tactics, and psychological manipulationthe more humanity must advance its capability to deliver emergency medical care to the swelling number of casualties.
The Korean War, 195053, was a significant point in that great tension between the destruction of armies and the preservation of individual lives. The designation ''police action," given facetiously by President Harry S. Truman in response to a reporter's question, does not begin to describe the commitment and heroism and ferocity and sacrifice of all who participated in the rugged war on the Korean Peninsula nearly fifty years ago. Young Americans grappled with Chinese and North Koreans in the toe-to-toe, slug-it-out grind of the jagged Korean mountains. The climate for this donnybrook vacillated from a dusty, stifling, sticky heat to penetrating subzero temperatures that froze everything from automotive fluids to the stubble on the soldier's chin.
The first of the three years of the war showcased the high mobility characteristic of later American involvement in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf. On June 25, 1950, the North Koreans blitzed across the thirty-eighth parallel into South Korea and pushed through the South Korean capital of Seoul. American troops, withdrawn from Korea by 1948 and stationed in Japan, came to the aid of the soldiers of the Republic of Korea (ROKs). The North Korean armor and infantry columns steamrollered south until the Americans and the ROKs dug in their heels for a last-ditch defense in a large semicircle around the port city of Pusan on the southern tip of the Korean peninsula. Backs to the sea, the Americans and the ROKs held their ground. That defensive position came to be known as the Pusan Perimeter.
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