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...replacement, he had been grievously wounded in his first action-a shell fragment had sheared off his left arm just below the shoulder. But the kid wanted no sympathy. He wanted something more specific: "One of you guys go back and find my arm. There's a wrist watch on it I want to keep...
When a policeman came into the bar, Otto Wilson was talking to another woman. The policeman came up behind him, looked at his cut hand, clapped a handcuff on his wrist...
...grabbed a towel and twisted it around his leg for a tourniquet. Gunn was magnificent in spite of the terrible wounds he had suffered. He sat partly up and watched me get the towel adjusted, and even held it himself for a while. Clete Roberts ignored an injured wrist and started out to find a doctor and ambulance...
Bright & early next morning, wearing two wrist watches (one set at Chungking time, the other at American E.W.T.), he turned up at the Red Cross Club, known to G.I.s in China as the "Java Dive." Staring at the unmistakable U.S. trappings, Henry Wallace said: "You've certainly created America here. It's swell." Then he stripped down to the waist for a volleyball game between officers and enlisted men, played in a drenching rain. Wallace teamed up with the G.I.s, fell flat on the muddy cement court...
Three other battalion commanders in our northern force were wounded the first day. One of them, one of the best known figures in the armed forces, was struck by a 13-mm. shell which punctured his lung, and five pieces of artillery shrapnel which tore into his arm and wrist. I saw him in a foxhole just after the doctors had dressed his wounds...