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    Dentists at War: 12 Who Went Beyond the Call of Duty
    Dentists at War: 12 Who Went Beyond the Call of Duty
    Dentists at War: 12 Who Went Beyond the Call of Duty
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    Dentists at War: 12 Who Went Beyond the Call of Duty

    By Norman Wahl DDS MS MA

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    In Dentists at War—12 Who Went Beyond the Call of Duty, author Norman Wahl has attempted to show how the dentist, so often envisioned by the public as the staid, methodical “tooth carpenter,” is capable of heroic deeds when called upon to do so, especially during wartime. Herein, Wahl presents 12 ordinarily peace-loving men whose lives were transformed by the circumstances in which they found themselves.
    Ever since dental officers became an integral part of the military (occurring in 1911 in the US Army), thousands of men and women of all nations have served both their profession and their country, under usually trying circumstances, diligently, and some heroically. Some lost their lives. Some were captured by the enemy and became prisoners of war (POWs), enduring beatings, starvation, and humiliation—and sometimes torture. Others volunteered for dangerous missions behind enemy lines.
    Dr Wahl has divided his account into more or less three sections: (1) history of military dentistry (Chapters I through IV), (2) prisoners of war through the ages (Chapters V through VII), and (3) the 12 selectees—their exploits (Chapters VIII through XII). Within these chapters you will meet an orthodontist who performed ferrying and guerrilla activities behind enemy lines, a Scottish POW who spied for M19, and an American captain who, manning a machine gun, killed 98 Japanese attackers on Saigon before succumbing to 76 bullet wounds as well as bayonet stabs, and nine others—all dentists.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJun 15, 2020
    ISBN9781728360065
    Dentists at War: 12 Who Went Beyond the Call of Duty
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    Norman Wahl DDS MS MA

    A native of Chicago and a West Point graduate, Norman Wahl was commissioned in the US Army Quartermaster Corps in 1946. After 3 years of service, he worked in the film studios, later producing two documentaries on the history of Los Angeles. He finally decided on a career in dentistry, specializing in orthodontics. In addition to a BS degree from the military academy, Dr Wahl has a DDS from the University of Illinois College of Dentistry, an MS in orthodontics from Northwestern University, and an MA in history from California State University at Northridge. He has written for the military and lay presses as well as for dental publications, mostly on orthodontic history. He is the author of Oral Signs and Symptoms, Wahl’s Oral Histories, Who Was Who in Orthodontics With a Selected Bibliography of Orthodontic History, and articles in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics (including the 16-chapter series, “Orthodontics in 3 Millennia”), the Angle Orthodontist, the Journal of Clinical Orthodontics, Dental Economics, and the Pacific Coast Society of Orthodontists Bulletin. He has also taught orthodontic history at the UCLA College of Dentistry. When Dr. Wahl heard that fellow dentist CPT Ben Salomon gave his life to permit evacuation of his aid station on Saipan during World War II, he thought, Maybe there were other dental officers who went beyond the call of duty during wartime to prove that dentists were capable of more than filling or extracting teeth. Maybe there was a story here that others should know about. The result was Dentists at War?12 Who Went Beyond the Call of Duty. Dr. Wahl now lives in Provo, Utah, with his children and grandchildren, still busy writing, and editing papers from foreign authors seeking to be published in English-language journals.

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