The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Richard Halfast. Born in Corry, Pennsylvania 20 May 1916, Halfast graduated from high school in 1934. He attended Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, graduating in 1938 and receiving a Medical Degree in 1942. He interned at the City Hospital in Springfield, Ohio until August 1943, at which time he entered the US Army. Reporting to the Camp Davis, North Carolina station hospital, Halfast was trained to do various urological procedures. He was then transferred to the 74th General Hospital and sent to Devonshire, New Hampshire where they went aboard HMS Queen Mary for a five day trip to Glasgow, Scotland. He tells of setting up a hospital in Bristol, England in preparation for receiving wounded from Operation Overlord. They began receiving wounded 7 June 1944. In June 1945, Halfast was sent to the 1st Auxiliary Surgical Group as a triage officer in the 114th Field Hospital. He describes the various types of wounds treated and recalls having twenty-six amputations in one day. He recalls visiting Dachau and describes what he saw there. Returning to the United States in June, 1945, he was ordered to O’Reilly General Hospital in …