Seventh Infantry Division - Yearbook (South Korea)

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platoon strength. Lieutenant Campbell spotted the at- tackers and rushed Corporal Armentrout forward to help dispell the Commies. Armentrout jumped down to the roadblock carrying his machinegun, the jacket of which had been punctured the night before by a mortar round. The gun chattered for several minutes then jammed but not before Armentrout had killed twenty Reds and sent the Reds tumbling back up the road in retreat. Lieutenant Campbell went back up and report- ed to S-4 that the road was under control but as he was making his report an enemy mortar shell moaned into the perimeter and burst ten feet away. Campbell was cut down with fragments in his left side and leg. Two other men were sprayed with shell bits. Dazed with shock, Campbell lay for an hour until 0800 when he Chinese dead in No-Mans-Land found after the heavy fighting in the Kumhwa Sector, Korea. , 1' ...Zn ' A , . H 3,5 ' 'im' 4, W ,gl A cz..- Ist Lt. John M. Norton and his platoon fire at a group of enemy M4A3 Tank ploughs through muddy rice paddy. soldiers they encountered while on patrol. A machine gunner opens up on enemy positions. 9 A crew manning a .50 cal. machine 'gun mounted half-track fires on enemy positions. . 563 gi 'X 19 4 2. .f 4, 4. kv Y ' f 1 f fm I I 3? '5 -new f

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was carried to an aid station. But the station was full and he was placed on a stretcher outside. Colonel Faith appeared a few minutes later. We need every man possible on the line, he said. If we can hold them for forty minutes more we'll get some air support. Otherwise we're through. The response was poor. Most of the men were seri- ously wounded or in a state of semi-shock. Come on you lazy bastards, Faith said, give us a hand. Faith's biting order carried enough impact. Several men responded to the order. Campbell, still bleeding, dragged himself along a railroad track and found a carbine with one round in it. He crawled a few more feet and collapsed in a foxhole before he reached the lines. Someone finally helped him back to the aid station where he received treatment. But the medics were out of bandages by now and the morphine was gone. Treatment General Matthew B. Ridgway. Y' W are r ,.-I in Ax n Aged man carried across the icy Han River by his son A mortar crew in action covers advancing troops.