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Another Way of Dying. After an hour we found that in place of execution we were merely to be offered another way of dying. A man led the four of us to the advanced positions and from there we were ordered to carry a wounded German on a stretcher across a field under Partisan fire, back to the cemetery headquarters. Partisan bullets sang by and kicked up dust around us. We ducked and crawled and at one point had to drop the stretcher and lie flat. But a German paratrooper behind us, carefully taking cover, prodded us on with...
...week's end LSTs were crawling steadily back to English ports. Negro stretcher bearers lifted
...again to the nature of the Partisan warfare, the wounded soldier can seldom be transported from the battlefield to the hospital quickly enough. On a truck, a cart, horseback, stretcher or on foot, it takes him anywhere between one week and six weeks to reach his medical destination. He may die or become an invalid for life on the way. It is for this reason that less than 70% of the Partisan wounded ever get fit for the front again...
When 60,000 Japanese invaded Java, Dr. Wassell was ordered to evacuate all his wounded who could walk. The stretcher cases were to be left to the Japanese. Disobeying the order, Dr. Wassell brought all of his men back to the coast. When a ship captain refused to take the stretcher cases aboard, Dr. Wassell stayed behind with them. The only able-bodied man among them, Dr. Wassell kept the nine wounded men alive, somehow got eight of them through the jungle to the coast and aboard the overcrowded Dutch steamer Janssens, the last United Nations ship to leave Java...
...dress unbuttoned to expose a prettily filled Javanese brassiere. Typical pathos: a blinded Alabamian (named Alabam) who outhears everybody else and who, whenever there is dangerous confusion, cries: "Kin anybody see anything?" Typical use of music: a studio orchestra plays The Star-Spangled Banner, pianissimo, as the stranded stretcher cases watch the ship that refused to take them withdraw into a calendar sunset...