Guide to the Homer Vernon Bradshaw Papers

Homer Vernon Bradshaw was appointed by the Board of Foreign Missions as a medical missionary to the South China Mission in 1928. His entire career was spent at Linhsien Station where he headed the medical staff of the Van Norden Memorial Hospital for Men and the Brooks Memorial Hospital for Women. He later taught surgery in the Hackett Medical College in Canton. From 1942-1945, he served in the U.S. Air Force as a flight surgeon with Chennault's Flying Tigers in China. Following the war, he returned to missionary service in China in his former capacity. In 1951, he and his wife, Wilda Hockenberry Bradshaw, were arrested by the Chinese Communists and incarcerated until there release in 1955. Dr. Bradshaw retired from mission work in 1964.