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...Cavalry Regiment was hacking its way up another of the unnamed, unnumbered hills of Korea. Back at the ist Cavalry Division's headquarters, Captain Richard K. Cole, 28, of Orlando, Fla., was waiting. A corpsman stuck his head through the tent flap and called out: "Patients for you, doc." Psychiatrist Cole picked up his only instruments, a notebook and pencil, and sat down on a packing case. The corpsman led the first patient in, handing his medical record to Cole...
...sergeant ducked out, the corpsman guided in another patient, also a sergeant and squad leader. His face was unshaven, his bushy brown hair uncombed. As Cole studied his record, the man pulled nervously at a cigarette. Cole used his standard opening: "George, can you tell me what happened...
...collective U.S. valor ran high during the fight on Hwachon's camel's head. One sergeant who wanted to rejoin his unit in spite of a broken foot protested violently against evacuation. "It ain't broken, it ain't broken," he cried to a medical corpsman. "I'm going back up!" The corpsman applied pressure to the foot, moved the broken bones. The sergeant's face contorted with pain, but he uttered no sound. The corpsman shook his head, then ordered the fighter out of combat...
...high-velocity shells whistled over the ford, toward the marines advancing from the south and the ist Cavalry's tankers. A chow line around the ist Cavalry armor abruptly disappeared as the men climbed in and buttoned up. In the marine area the cry for a medical corpsman was heard, and dirt began to fly from entrenching tools...
...riding with a careful driver after the numerous 'army cowboys' we had traveled with the past few weeks." Then the jeep entered a thick cloud of dust and the next thing Bell knew he was lying on the road and hearing a Navy corpsman say, "This guy is pretty bad." Whether the jeep had hit a mine or collided with an oncoming amtrac, no one knew. Bell had a broken arm as well as chest and leg injuries, Davies a severe concussion and McDonald two bad cuts. Lugged to the beach, Correspondent Bell dictated a story for LIFE...