Doctor's wartime journals recount time in WWII
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Dr. John Linner, second from left, with fellow medical corp officers in the Pacific during World War II.
Photo courtesy of John Linner
Veteran Dr. John Linner from Edina kept diaries of the fighting he saw during World War II, but after the war he put them on a shelf for 50 years, until his daughters and wife pressed him to write about his experiences. The result is a book, "From Normandy to Okinawa," Linner's look back at his Navy service as a medical doctor tending to the wounded on D-Day and in the Pacific.
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