Medical Museum Science Café: “Navy Medicine's Trial by Fire, December 7, 1941,” a presentation by Jan Herman, Medical Historian December 13, 2011

Seventy years after Pearl Harbor, lessons learned by the Navy Medical Department in the wake of the attack continue to inform modern military medicine. Join Navy historian Jan Herman for an in-depth look at how medical personnel lived through the attack, and how Navy medicine dealt with the casualties on the day “which will live in infamy.” Presented by the National Museum of Health and Medicine.

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