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Last week Barney, 37 and greying, turned up in the United States Attorney's office in Manhattan to report himself a drug addict. It started, said he, when he was in a Guadalcanal hospital, with shock and malaria. A couple of his hospital corpsmen friends had given him dope (not part of the services' regular malaria therapy, but a rare resort in cases of extreme migraine). As months went by, his headaches recurred; somehow (perhaps with forged prescriptions), Barney got more dope. Says he: "I got in over my head...
...totted up the final results of its demobilization program: 3,070,581 officers and enlisted men released out of a V-J day total of 3,400,000. Only non-regulars still on active duty: reserves who had volunteered to stay on until next July, a few doctors and corpsmen...
Then he got right down to cases. "The holding of hands, osculation and constant embracing of WAVES, corpsmen or civilians and sailors or any combination of male & female personnel is a violation of naval discipline...
...lowered 75 wounded men down the rock walls to safety before descending himself, haggard, dirty, miraculously alive. For weeks, after that, he was in and ahead of the front lines. Twice he was wounded. Grenade fragments ripped his legs, knocked him down and out of action. But when other corpsmen tried to carry him back, he crawled off the litter, sent them to another wounded man. Then a shellburst shattered his arm. He lashed a rifle stock to the arm, managed to crawl hundreds of yards to safety...
...caught by chance-when Canadian Intelligence Corpsmen casually inquired about his identity, got answers that did not add up. This week a court-martial was still at work figuring out how much time Adrien Demers must serve...