Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Scribner waited until his South Korean litter bearers had loaded the man they had just brought up onto a jeep. He shook himself, said, "Come on, characters," and started down into the valley and up the bloody ridge again...
...South Koreans, without a word, picked up their litters and started following him down again into this green, green valley. I tried to get their names, but no one knew. They were just "Scribner's characters." They were good characters to have on your side...
Private Arthur Gentry of El Monte, Calif, is a bazookaman who went across the valley and up the ridge and back again. He is very young. He was so exhausted when he returned from the ridge that he could hardly talk. "We couldn't see where they were at," he gasped. "They were too well camouflaged...
...Padre Was Brave. The ridge did not stay quiet for long. As Craig prepared to order the second assault wave into the valley, U.S. artillery opened up on the Red positions once more. Then the Corsairs came roaring out of the sky again, their gull-like wings almost scraping the tops of the shabby shrubbery on No Name Ridge. Rockets burst all over the ridge with searing, orange explosions; the Corsairs' machine guns stitched line after line of death up, down and across the ridge...
Meanwhile, the heroic and unflinching South Korean stretcher bearers continued to bring the U.S. wounded out of the valley. Roman Catholic Chaplain Otto Sporrer, a Navy* lieutenant commander, stood exposed to sniper fire and two Red machine guns still chattering from the valley flanks and did what he could to help the medics. The padre spoke kind words to the stretcher bearers; when the men on the stretchers could hear him, he spoke to them too. All the while, he walked back & forth from the top of the trail to the aid station near Craig's command post...