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| The wounded are secured in their stretchers onto the pods on each side of the helicopter. If needed, and the patient was able, a third might sit next to the pilot in the co-pilot's seat. | Takeoff and the journey begins. I wish whoever those wounded were a safe journey and a quick and full recovery. | |
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| My P&A Platoon sergeant and Lt. Phelps. Papasans work beside a road in the background. Across the valley is the Papasan's encampment and a road called DeGavre Drive leading to the ROKs on our left flank. | The sign says "Kitchen". This was the kitchen for the "Papasans" attached to our company as laborers. Papasans were older men who were not young enough to fight as ROK soldiers, but who had been conscripted to help in the war as laborers. It was the Papasans who built roads, bunkers, and much else of the infrastructure of combat. | |
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| Smoke rises as the Papasan's kitchen fires up some of the logs shown in the previous picture to get ready to cook their next meal. I wondered at the time how they avoided being spotted by their smoke and shelled by the Chinese. Maybe it helped to be a native... | Lt. Phelps stands next to the "Ruff S. Road" sign with Chinese held Jackson Heights over his right shoulder and the left flank of the MLR over his left shoulder. OP Tom can be seen at the far left of this picture and in the middle of the picture at right. This cutout is a site for a mobile automatic canon As you can see in the photo at right, any weapon had excellent coverage of the Ch'orwon valley North. | |
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