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...example of what doctors must face in war, Captain Hering cited the fighting withdrawal of the 1st Marine Division, with which he was serving as division surgeon, from the Changjin Reservoir to Hungnam last December. The conditions: "Thirty degrees below zero weather with no fires or warming tents, frozen C rations for food, snow for water, and the hills lined with screaming Chinese thousands for 16 bloody miles...
...refused to turn in, despite the pain and danger of permanent injury, in their desire to fight their way out with their comrades. This sorting of frostbite . . . was almost brutally done, as we needed every man capable of bearing a rifle on the fight down [to Hungnam], I personally passed on all controversial cases, using as my criteria the feet of the 5th Regimental surgeon. He refused to be evacuated although he could not walk without great pain, but insisted on riding in an ambulance with his medical section. Those worse than he were evacuated; those less [severe] fought their...
Last August the Missouri stood out of Norfolk for Korea. Since then, she has been shelling Communists almost continuously for six months. She supported MacArthur's amphibious stroke at Inchon, the X Corps evacuation from Hungnam. Most of the time she harried Red communications along the east coast, shelling towns, roads, convoys, bridges. Last week the Big Mo was on her way back to the U.S. She was being "rotated," to give other ships a chance at the Korean...
...with the lack of courage, bravery and interest in men that are expected . . ." He charged that supplies of such things as "delicate crackers, cookies, cheeses, also vast quantities of beer" being hauled to the front made "necessary transportation difficult." Said he bitterly: "[At] General Almond's headquarters in Hungnam, Korea-the X Corps headquarters-the Officers' Mess consisted of a nice warmed building in which the food was served in plates, well cooked. There were waiters and an orchestra was available for music. Outside in the bitter cold, long lines of enlisted men stood in order to receive...
...Military Sea Transportation Service. The Empire Marshal began ferrying soldiers from Japan to Korea. The crew got to know and like their passengers. The morning after the first assault landings at Inchon the Empire Marshal went in with tanks. When the Red Chinese began to close in on Hungnam and Wonsan last December, the Empire Marshal was waiting offshore to evacuate U.S. and British troops. Master and crew were praised by Rear Admiral J. H. Doyle, U.S. commander of the Hungnam operation...