Word: stretcher
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Salute for a Pfc. By11 a.m. all of the 100 U.N. soldiers had been delivered. The non-Koreans included 30 Americans, twelve British, four Turks, one each from Canada, the Philippines, South Africa, Greece. Among these were four stretcher cases-three Americans and one Turk...
...walking-wounded, the stretcher cases, the dressed and undressed, enter Murphy's cubicle all afternoon; for those who look seriously injured, Murphy has an "inspirational" but equally effective technique. "My job is just as much to make them feel they're in good hands, as it is to take pictures," he says...
...couple of correspondents were green hands at the front. They saw the Communists hold fast to Spud Hill despite terrific bombardment, the 7th's men repulsed, the stretcher-bearers bringing down the casualties (three killed, 61 wounded, of whom many were stunned or scratched and returned to duty the next day). Their report home made Operation Smack seem like a staged show, bloody and purposeless. In Washington, Michigan's Republican Congressman Clare Hoffman, never one to shun a headline, sounded off loudly. The Army, he trumpeted, must explain "whether these invited guests were witnessing a spectacle similar...
...Force Base, Major John Eisenhower had a brief meeting with Marine Lieut. Allen Macy Dulles, son of the new head of Central Intelligence Agency and nephew of the Secretary of State. The major was on his way back to Korea to finish his tour of duty; the lieutenant, a stretcher patient bound for Bethesda Naval Hospital and further treatment for battle wounds...
Irwin Rietz followed his twin's stretcher to a forward field hospital, stood outside while doctors worked to staunch the blood flow. A few minutes later a doctor came...