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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...
...Honest Youths. This san-pu-kuan stretch is nearly ten miles long. Then the refugees enter Communist lines. They are inspected by the Communist Children Corps, grim-eyed, incorruptible teen-agers clad in drab uniforms and armed with red-tasseled spears. The juvenile corpsmen reject all wheedling words or hints of bribes. "We Communist youth are honest," they chant. "We don't go for sly words in our liberated territory...
...story told in court began with a bachelor brawl. Aldrich and three pals wandered around Nanking in a jeep, chased a couple of Chinese girls, and then stopped on the Chungho Bridge. "Hello!" said Aldrich thickly to some Chinese youths perched on the bridge rail. Chinese Air Force Corpsmen Wong Shou-pen and Ke Fating did not seem to understand the greeting. Suddenly Corporal Aldrich cried, "Ding ho!" Seizing Wong and Ke by the legs, he dumped them backward into the deep and muddy stream below. The Americans laughed; it did not occur to them that neither Chinese could swim...
Aklavik's station CHAK, "The Friendly Voice of the Arctic," has no sponsored broadcasts, makes no money. Because Signals Corpsmen have the Army's work to do, too, this northernmost commercial station in the Western Hemisphere is on the air only three nights a week, gives its only day programs Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Programs consist chiefly of records, most of them old numbers donated by Aklavikans. Eskimos and Indians, says MacLeod, like cowboy songs best; whites prefer Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah and boogie-woogie. Sundays the station airs one church service after another-some in Eskimo...