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...Army's only offering to men under draft age is its Enlisted Reserve Corps. The program merely grants deforms to college men until the end of the term during which they register for the draft. At that term's close, corpsmen receive orders to report to a replacement center in their home service command. Application forms and physical examinations are to be had at 808 Commonwealth Avenue. Enlistment here carries no implication of special training...
...typical of any day at San Diego. In the orthopedic ward men with arms in casts or limbs elevated in the air by counterweights tried doggedly to write, wove lace doilies, made sketches of battle scenes they remembered. Some with wounded arms and hands played poker while Navy hospital corpsmen stood by to handle the cards...
...southern slope of a hill on furnace-hot Peleliu, two hospital corpsmen came upon a badly wounded marine, a young Southerner. They lifted him on a stretcher and started toward the beach through the machine-gun fire that corpsmen often brave to rescue fallen comrades...
...corpsmen dropped. He had been shot between the eyes. The other corpsman, Chief Pharmacist's Mate Reeder Parker of Lexington, Ala., told the rest of the story to New York Timesman George Home: The wounded marine . . . was heart broken: "I'm sorry he got it trying to get me back. It's no use taking me because I'm dying anyhow." The wounded man and the young corps man could go no farther without help. Parker sat down beside the marine, whose life was ebbing. The marine prayed for the man who had died...
...like that in half a dozen little forest towns along the border, as fear gave way to sullenness and sullenness to little offers of assistance. But in Wallendorf, frenzied civilian snipers picked off the first patrols, shot down rescuing medical corpsmen. Wallendorf was burned to the ground...