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As an RAF medical officer, Aidan served in France, survived Dunkirk, and was plunged into adventures in the Japanese-American arena. Interned by the Japanese in Java, Dr MacCarthy helped his fellow prisoners with incredible ingenuity. In 1944, en route to the Japanese mainland, his ship was torpedoed, but he was picked up by a whaling boat and re-interned in Japan. While in Nagasaki he was an eyewitness to the horror and devastation of the atom bomb. Finally, he cruised home on board the Queen Mary.
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AIDAN MACCARTHY qualified as a doctor at Cork University in 1938. He joined the RAF in 1939, and in 1941 was awarded the George medal for rescuing a pilot from a blazing plane. After the war he was awarded the OBE for his prisoner-of-war work. He continued to serve in the medical branch of the RAF and in 1969 was appointed to command the RAF central medical establishment in London. He retired in 1972. Married in 1948 he had two daughters, one of whom now runs MacCarthy's Bar in Castletownbere. He lived until 1995.
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An Irish doctor who served in Britain's Royal Air Force, MacCarthy's memoir concentrates on his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. Captured in the Dutch East Indies early in 1942, he spent time in several local POW camps where conditions for Europeans and Americans were much worse than in German POW camps. Often the only doctor in his area, he treatedand experienced firsthandthe many deadly ailments that were caused by poor diet, the hostile climate and regular beatings from guards. In 1944, MacCarthy was transferred to Japan (on the way his ship was sunk, and he drifted at sea for several days), only to be put to work in factories in Nagasaki. He survived the atomic bomb explosion by getting into a shelterprisoners who waited above ground were vaporized. Written in a straightforward, matter-of-fact tone, this book is marked by the author's ability to keep cool under adversity and by his admirable sense of humor and irony. A wonderful, if chilling work.
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- PublisherUlverscroft
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 184617290X
- ISBN 13 9781846172908
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages240
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