Word: corpsmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult place it has ever been in-Korea." Over the years, the Medical Service had grown mightily from a pipsqueak, penny-pinched outfit (five doctors for 20,000 men in 1775) into a veritable army of healers: 10,200 officers (doctors, dentists and nurses), some 25,000 enlisted Medical Corpsmen. But the nature of war and the hapless plight of the wounded, the agony of torn flesh and the superhuman burdens on the "medics" had not changed. From the Korean war zone, LIFE Staff Photographer Carl Mydans cabled...
...Tinian, 32 square miles in the Marianas, polyglot leper patients may come from any of the thousands of islands scattered over the watery 3,000,000 sq. mi. of the Trust Territory (former Japanese mandate). Dr. McNeilly will have a warrant officer, four corpsmen, three native nurses and two native aids to help...