The Expendable is the True Story of Charles Conrad Beckner, a young Navy Corpsman confronting life and death in the opening battle of WWII in the Pacific.
In December 1941 he is serving as the independent duty Corpsman, caring for the crewm.
He is later assigned to Patrol Wing 10.
After basic and clinical training as a hospital corpsman, Charles is posted to Ca acao Navy Hospital in the Philippine Islands.
Charles leaves his Indiana sharecropper family and enlists in the Navy in 1939.
The Expendable is the True Story of Charles Conrad Beckner, a young Navy Corpsman confronting life and death in the opening battle of WWII in the Pacific