Presentations

The Monday presentations on medical advances of WWII and Hermann Goering were very interesting and informative.

I was somewhat surprised to learn that the Japanese were no more adept at fighting off malaria than the Americans. I guess I just assumed that since they were jungle fighters that they would not be plagued as badly with this problem. To think that on the Bataan peninsula that 500-700 people fell ill per day is a staggering thought that I cannot even imagine. And, to top that off there was an approximate 500,000 cases of malaria reported. Disease seemed to be almost as bad an enemy to all the troops as they were to each other.

I did not realize that Hitler had chosen an heir to his German government considering that Hitler was usually a one-man show. It is interesting to note that Goering surrendered to the Allies and was the highest official at the Nuremberg trials, since those that were equal in command had committed suicide to avoid the inevitable.