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F. Clifton Berry, Jr., an Army veteran who saw combat in Vietnam. F. Clifton Berry received a direct
Regular Army commission in Infantry while serving in the 82d Airborne Division. He saw combat in Vietnam as operations officer
of a light infantry brigade. He commanded two rifle companies and an Infantry battalion during active service. F. Clifton
Berry also served in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs), on the staff of a presidential commission
and at the Department of State. F.
Clifton Berry earned a Bachelor's in Mathematics at George Washington University and a Master's in Communication at
Stanford University while on active duty as an Infantry officer in the U.S. Army. He has edited Air Force magazine, been the
chief U.S. editor of Interavia Publications; and, edited Air Power History and National Defense magazine. In
addition to being a member of the Authors Guild of America, he is a master parachutist and private pilot with land and seaplane
ratings. F. Clifton Berry is the author of
United States Army at War: 9/11 through Iraq; Sky Soldiers: The Illustrated History of the Vietnam War; AIR CAV
(Illustrated History of the Vietnam War, Vol. 17): CHARGERS #12 (Illustrated History of the Vietnam War, Vol. 12); GADGET
WARFARE #14 (Illustrated History of the Vietnam War, Vol. 14); STRIKE AIRCRAFT #9 (Illustrated History of the Vietnam War,
Vol. 9); Inside the CIA: Architecture, Art & Atmosphere of America's Premiere Intelligence Agency; and, Inventing
the Future: How Science and Technology Transform Our World; Milestones of the First Century of Flight. F.
Clifton Berry is also the co-author of Medics at War: Military Medicine from Colonial Times to the 21st Century;
CNN War in the Gulf; Flights: American Aerospace...Beginning to Future; and, War in the Gulf from the Invasion of Kuwait to
the Day of Victory and Beyond.”
According to the book description
Medics at War: Military Medicine from Colonial Times to the 21st Century, is “Filled with
more than 150 color and black-and-white illustrations, this handsome large-format book celebrates frontline medical personnel
and the critical role they have played in the success of U.S. armed forces, from the battles of Lexington and Concord in colonial
times to the recent battles in Iraq and Afghanistan. The narrative and photographs cover all the links in the military medical
chain, beginning with ensuring good health for individual service members to caring for combat casualties and seeing to their
return to health. The book focuses on individual medics
who serve with frontline units saving lives and moving casualties from the battle to definitive medical care. Readers accompany
the medics and their patients from aid stations to combat support hospitals and air transportable hospitals to hospital ships
and high-level medical centers. From horse-drawn ambulances to today’s advanced medevac helicopters and aeromedical
evacuation airplanes, the means of evacuating casualties from the battle has evolved dramatically, but the intent remains
unchanged. Other important elements this book calls attention to are the military medical innovations that have improved the
health of the armed forces—and the civilian population as well. This book is published with the cooperation of the Association
of the United States Army.”
One reader of CNN
War in the Gulf said, “After offering an unprecedented amount of live coverage of the first Gulf War,
Cable Network News (CNN) commissioned Thomas Allen, Clifton Berry, and Norman Polmar to write a hasty history immediately
following the conclusion of combat in 1991. The result is "War in the Gulf', a first take that has both the sense
of immediacy and the shortcomings of being too close in time to the described event. The authors, all experienced in defense affairs, had access to the large volume of reporting
conducted by CNN between August 1990 and February 1991. As is common for current news, this reporting was typically incomplete
and lacked perspective. That said, "War in the Gulf" provides a good running commentary about the preparation and
conduct of Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM. It comes with a healthy collection of photographs and graphics that
help illuminate the conflict for the general reader. Its best use may be as a capture of what was understood at the time about
the First Gulf War.”
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