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...Said Pfc. Thomas R. Murray of Baltimore: "A lot of the time I worried about what was right and what was wrong. After they've pounded it into your head so long, you begin to wonder. I wavered myself-it would last for a week-and then I'd say, 'Hell, that don't sound right,' and I'd go back to thinking the way I always did . . . But after three years, you had a little doubt, you were a little confused...
Penknife Surgery. Pfc. Tully Cox of Altoona, Ala. was only 17 years old when the Reds shot him in both legs, then captured him, one day late in 1950. He was one of 20 men guarding a 40-truck convoy carrying some 800 U.S. wounded toward Hamhung. "The Chinese climbed up on the trucks," he said, "and sprayed burp guns into the wounded. Then they bayoneted them. The wounded were screaming. They couldn't do anything." Pfc. Cox assumed that most of them died. There were no medics at the first P.W. camp he went to. so two buddies...
...commanders knew that the Communists would make their propagandistic most of the amputees and litter cases. The Reds, to fill their quotas, were sending back soldiers who were generally in good health, including some who were recently captured. One was a cocky, 19-year-old Marine machine gunner, Pfc. Joseph B. Brit Jr. of Long Beach. Calif., who had been captured during the Bunker Hill fighting on March 26. Brit said he had parried a few Red attempts at indoctrination by asking a stream of diversionary questions. "I guess," he grinned, "they thought I was a real card." His bouncy...
...doctors, nurses and some among the 140 newsmen watched them with tears in their eyes. The stretcher cases were taken by helicopter to the advance base at Munsan, where a mobile surgical hospital had been erected; the walking patients went by ambulance. The first man to reach Munsan was Pfc. Robert Stell, a Baltimore Negro. General Mark Clark, who was waiting at Munsan to greet the returnees, saluted Stell and made a move to adjust his robe, but a medic beat the general to it. After medical and intelligence processing, the men were offered cigarettes, Cokes, milk shakes, steak. Some...
...Reds promised 35 more Americans, twelve British, three Turks, 50 South Koreans. Some of the Americans exchanged on the first day wondered why they had been picked, when others suffering worse injuries or ailments had been left behind. They seemed unable to realize that they were free. When Pfc. David W. Ludlum of Fort Wayne, Ind. was asked what he looked forward to, he answered: "I haven't been doing much thinking lately. I did all my dreaming a long time...