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boxes of chow. We fought there two and a half hours, and
we could tell when we got a hit on those chow boxes. You
could see the shiny tin cans flying through the air. That was
the food we were going to eat for the next few days.
At 4 o’clock in the morning, our C.O. got orders to with
draw completely. He told me to take off with the first platoon
going down the mountain and help carry the wounded. At
that time we had two casualties.
The platoon I was with was'the second platoon of the
company. Instead of going off the mountain to the left, as
I knew we should, we went off to the right. I knew the area
pretty well because I had been on patrols.
On the way down I was left behind. I had blisters on my
feet and was pretty well out. I was tired and hadn’t had any
sleep. The mountain was so steep that we had to tie our
sleeping bags between two trees and get in them.
Warns His Leader of Wrong Road
You could hear the Chinks blowing bugles all through the
mountain and I was sure we were headed wrong. So I ran to
catch up with the rest of the platoon and told the leader
we were on the wrong road. He said we weren’t, and I told
him I was sure we would run into a hornet’s nest if we kept
on. We walked about 3,000 yards and he decided it was the
wrong approach to our rendezvous point.
So we turned and started back. What had happened was
that these troops (Chinese) had formed a sort of horseshoe
and the platoon I was with was almost surrounded. When we
turned and started out of the open part of the horseshoe, they
opened up on us.
That’s when I got wounded. Thirty minutes before day
light.
We were marching along at the foot of the hill in column
—single file. It was 10 or 12 feet between me and the fellow
in front and there were several men behind, six or eight.
A ' Shadow ' Speaks to Him in Chinese
I first saw a shadow raise up in the dark and he said
something to me in Chinese. I was carrying my gun at port
arm and ready to fire at any time, my finger on the trigger.
All I had to do was to slip the safety catch off.
At the same time he said something, he opened up. I
think the first burst missed me because I had dropped the
muzzle of my rifle down and let the first burst go. I only got
one round off when he opened with his second series and hit
me. I think I hit him in the shoulder or upper part of the
body. Anyhow he walked off.
I had my bayonet on my rifle. When I fell I tried to catch
myself and keep from hitting my face on the rocks. I threw
the butt of my rifle into the ground and tried to protect my
face.
I had been hit once In the leg and knee, and twice in the
groin. For approximately an hour I lay there bleeding in the
cold, 10 feet off the path. Then another Chink came up. When
I saw him I turned my head. I didn’t know whether he was
going to shoot me or what and I didn’t want to see him raise
his rifle.
He didn’t say a word. And all I could do was hope and
pray that he would leave me alone, thinking I was dead. Just
to make sure, he fired and hit me in the stomach. When he
did I tried to breathe lightly so he wouldn’t think I was alive.
I was playing dead and I guess I was nearer dead than I
thought at the time.
Meanwhile, the rest of the platoon had gone on. A year
later a sergeant in the same platoon told me they knew I had
been shot but gave me up for dead.
Water in Canteen is Frozen Solid
It was awful cold. The creek near me was frozen over,
all but little trickle of water in the middle. But I had on
heavy clothing and snow pack. I had wool gloves on also. The
water in my canteen was frozen solid. Maybe the cold helped
check my bleeding.
Nobody came to help me. For about three hours I lay
there semiconscious and the Chinks had dispersed. Knowing
•the area as I did I decided I had a chance to get to the bat
talion aid station, which was approximately half a mile.
Every once, in awhile, the Chinks kept going and coming
300 or 400 yards away. But whenever I could, I dragged
myself along to a corn fodder shock in a field about 40 yards
from where I fell.
I made three or four different attempts to leave the
corn shock. I couldn’t walk—had to push along in more or
less of a crawl on my right leg and drag the left one. I was
practically paralyzed.
Every time I’d get o’ut a little ways, the sweat would pop
out on me and everything went black, in a faint. Finally,
there were so many Chinks coming and going in the area
I decided to crawl back in and wait until I had a better
chance. Well, that night, there were many Chinks coming
and going—hundreds of them—near where I was. Could
even hear footsteps and hear them talking in whispers.
They didn’t suspect anybody was there and I was left
alone.
At the time I was in so much misery I didn’t try to
use my first-aid kit. I was just about gone. In fact I
did not know then whether the Chinks had taken the kit
or not. When I was shot they had lifted it up and felt it.
They kicked me and took my ammunition, watch and rifle.
But they left the canteen, my belt, cigarette lighter and the
kit.
Next morning I tried to take off again but when I got
out into the open I saw so many Chinks I went back and
grabbed myself a cigarette and lighted up.
I also had two bars of candy and I ate some of that. It
didn’t particularly bother me with my stomach wounds be
cause, to relieve the pain, I sort of doubled up and felt better
that way. I found out later, from official examinations after
my release, that the stomach wound didn’t harm my intestines
at all.
Napalm Bombs Drop Close to Corn Shock
Allied planes machine-gunned the valley that day. Our
planes were dropping napalm bombs so close that I could feel
the.heat from the fire And rockets were hitting near enough
to spatter dirt all around.
‘ This was the morning of the 28th. After I tried to get
away the first time I said to myself: Would it be better to
lie there and die or take a chance on just crawling out into the
open and let them either finish me off or take me in and
give me aid?
I crawled out into the open beside a path. A couple of
Chinks came along. When they saw me, both raised their
weapons, pointing at me. They had their bayonets on me and
punched me in the ribs.
Then I opened up my clothes to show them I had been
wounded and was bleeding. They went through my pockets
and took my cigarette lighter. But they didn’t notice my ring.
It was a birthstone set with two diamonds my wife had given
me. They mumbled something in Chinese which I remember
but at that time didn’t know what it meant. Later on I
learned they were saying they would return to pick me up.
After a couple of hours they came back with two sticks
run through a couple of rice bags. That’s what they used for
a stretcher. They took me up and carried me approximately
a quarter of a mile to a little village and put me in a shack
with about 25 other prisoners. Most of them had been wounded
but only four of us were litter cases.
Wounded Prisoners Crowded in Shack
Everybody was all crowded up in this little shack. And
they kept bringing in more prisoners. Most of these could
walk. They’d been hurt in the shoulders or upper body.
They gave me no first aid but some of my buddies sot
out my first-aid bandages to cover some of my wounds. I
asked them to put the pack on my left leg because that hurt
most. I thought it would relieve the pain a-bit and it did.
That’s all the first aid I got, except that a couple of Gls
washed the blood around my wounds the best they could.
After dark they started to move us. They had rounded
up about 75 prisoners all together and everybody walked but
the four litter patients. They had one or two American litters
and the rest were made of sticks with rice bags. I broke
three of them myself.' About 100 Chinese went along and the
Gls carried us who couldn’t walk.
In seven hours we reached a little mining camp. I
never have found out where it was, though I’ve tried. On
the way, we saw a Jeep coming down the road with lights on.
At the same time one of our own planes came over, a night
fighter I think, and the pilot spotted the jeep. He threw a
couple of rockets on it and they landed up in front of us.
The boys carrying stretchers put us down and they hit the
dirt until after the plane left.
Nobody in our group was injured but as we moved north
again we saw the jeep abandoned on the side of the road.
When we reached the mining camp, they put us in a
mud shack with two Koreans. The walking troops were
moved on, and put somewhere else that night.
Afterwards they told the four of us on stretchers they
were going to take us back toward our lines . They said they
would turn us over to the Americans because they didn’t have
any medical aid
Left 75 Hours Lying oh Sleds
We stayed there until December-6. They told us we
would be returned on the 7th, and they had papers and maps
showing the route. As a precaution for aircraft they had tied
white flags on bobsleds drawn over the snow by oxen.
When we left they put two of us on eash bobsled and
an old Korean fellow was in charge of the lead bull. One
Chinese went along, too. It was snowing and was bitter cold.
But I had a sleeping bag and kept pretty warm. At last we
reached the designated shack—it was like an old barn and
had no heat.
They left us lying there on the sleds for 15 hours and
gave us no food all that time. They said an ambulance was
supposed to come pick us up. Or at least it was a truck
with a red cross on th£ sides. They gave the impression they
had been in touch with the Americans and it did appear
preparations were made. But somehow, along the line—
there was nobody there to pick us up.
At the end of 15 hours they started taking us back north.
We never found out why nobody picked us up.
We traveled through the freezing weather for 45 or 50
miles to a railroad center, a main supply route. We were
to stay in that miserable place for four months.
(Tomorrow: Four Months of Misery in a Mud Shack.)
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By tha Associated Press
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The Agriculture Department
yesterday estimated the winter
wheat crop as of May 1 at 729,-
884,000 Jjushels. Spring wheat
was not estimated, but an aver
age crop is 285 million bushels.
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Seven U. S. Civilians
Tell of Death March
Along With POWs
By the Associated Press
BERLIN, May 12.-*-Seven
American civilians who survived
a Korean “death march” under
Communist guns reached free
Berlin by plane from Moscow
today.
They told a harrowing story
of being herded 150 miles in a
winter storm by North Korean
security police in November, 1950.
Ninety-nine American soldier
prisoners died along the way.
The civilians—a Catholic priest,
five Methodist missionaries and
a business man—were flown
here today from Moscow in a
United States Air Force trans
port after a trans-Siberian jour
ney by train.
Confirms Earlier Accounts.
Their answers to a quick bar
rage of newsmen’s questions at
Templehof Air Base, during a
brief stop, corroborated earlier
accounts by repatriated United
States prisoners of war of “death
march” horrors.
“We were in a death march, all
right,” said Lawrence A. Zellers,
30, a missionary from Weather
ford, Texas.
“There were 747 United States
POWs and about 70 civilians
when we started. Ninety-nine
soldiers and three civilians died
en route.
“The march was from Manpo
to Chung Kang Gin in terrible
weather. We were guarded by
men of the North Korean inter
nal security force under an of
ficer known as “The Tiger,” Mr.
Zellers related.
Treated Better Later.
“It started on November 1 and
ended on November 9, 1950. It
might have been different if we
had been under the North Ko
rean army then instead of the
Internal Security Force. The
army later treated us much bet
ter.”
Louis Dan’s Chicago, HI., busi
nessman. gave the same figures
THE EVENING STAR
Washington, D. C.
TUESDAY. MAY 19. 1953
as Mr. Zellers for the American
casualties on the “death march.**
The missionaries agreed that
the winter in 1950 was the worst
period of their long imprison
ment by the Communists.
“It was during this time that
we lost Msgr. Patrick J. Byrne,
apostolic 'delegate to Korea,**
said Father William Booth, Cath
olic Maryknoll missionary, of
New York City. Msgr. Byrne
formerly was from Washing
ton, D. C.
Ex-College Bursar
Held in Embezzlement
By the Associated Press
GREENSBORO, N. C., May 12.
—N. C. Webster, 51. was indicted
here yesterday on charges of em
bezzling $116,121.18 from Agri
cultural and Technical College’s
coffers over a period of nearly
three years. He was college
bursar for 30 years.
The Guilford County grand
jury returned 23 counts against)
Webster, who is colored. He was
arrested on a capias ordered by
Judge George B. Patton, who also
set a bond at $15,000 returnable
for a special Superior Court term
here June 1. ,
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