Word: taegu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Colonel Prendergast climbed into his Thunder jet, took off on his 27th combat mission, a standard workhorse job-cutting enemy rail lines near Sinan-ju. Mission completed, he was leading his formation home when he got word that the landing field at Taegu was all but socked in by weather, and that several score orbiting planes were stacked up there waiting their turns to land. Prendergast led his men to another field, saw them head in safely, one by one, then started down himself. He was making his final approach when he ran out of fuel...
...32nd Infantry Division, he was wounded in battle, contracted malaria, won the Bronze Star. After the war, he went back to the reservation at Winnebago, Neb., but soon re-enlisted as a Regular Army man. Last September, serving as a rifleman with the ist Cavalry Division above Taegu in Korea, Sergeant John Rice, 37, was killed in action...
...Three-Man Team. The Army let him set up a three-man team in Taegu. Operating under primitive conditions, with the aid of one enlisted man instead of the two trained surgeons civilian doctors are used to, his surgeons performed 108 operations in the first three weeks of the spring offensive...
Meirowsky shuttled between Japan and Taegu, performing operations at both bases. During lulls, he dashed off by jeep or helicopter to the front to tell medics how to handle brain cases, teaching them to go easy on morphine, so that any complications could be spotted easily. He devised a system of sandwiching paraplegics between two padded litters so that their position could be safely changed by a single quick flip, thus avoiding blood poisoning from bed sores...
Through correspondence with his family who are in Korea, Rim learned of his wife and child's 100 mile five-day flight from Seoul to Taegu on foot...