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Fourth Cross. A month later he got in the way of a bursting shell. Seven fragments landed in the indignant Puller's body. The surgeon wanted to tag him as a casualty and evacuate him. "Take that tag and label a bottle with it," Puller roared, "I'll stay here." Later, he ruefully noted in his combat journal: "I found myself unable to keep up with my battalion," and he had to go back to the hospital compound. But he did not stay long...
...Cigar. In France, an R.C.A.F. batman examined a shell fragment that landed in the dugout beside him, found that the serial number on it was exactly the same as the number on his own identification tag...
This unspecific formula amounts to one certainty: soldiers who have not yet been in combat will be on the tag end of the parade home...
...dangerous job began secretly in the first empty days of the war. It was a gallant thing then-dirty old "rust buckets" from West Coast bone yards taking aboard the tag end of a nation's aged and faulty munitions, bound for Pearl Harbor, Melbourne, the Philippines. But the munitions-loading grew. Slingloads of shells and high explosives were turning dozens of the new grey Liberty ships into floating bombs in scores of American harbors. Thousands of men & women spent their days & nights making and handling cordite...
...watched for a while as the wounded were brought up the gangway from the amphibious ducks which had evacuated them from shore. The first patient, a soldier, had been wounded in the back and arm by mortar fragments. Dr. Beck examined his tag and pried under his bandages. "Put him in Surgical One Lower," said the doctor. The bearers lifted him gingerly and walked up the stairway...