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Earl R. Hufford |
Earl Hufford, Korea, ca 1952. | Korean War, 1950-1953
Army
11th Evacuation Hospital, Medical Corps
Fort Meade, Maryland; Camp Pickett, Virginia; Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Fort Lewis, Washington; Seoul, Wanju, Inchon and Inje, South Korea
Private First Class
OH
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If you ever watch MASH on television, thats the way it is, says Earl Hufford, who was there, in Korea, not as a sardonic doctor like Hawkeye Pierce but working a variety of support jobs, including stints as a chaplains assistant. Hufford was a college student in Ohio with a Methodist preachers license when he was drafted. His aptitude for things medical landed him in a series of courseshe even learned how to do autopsies. Although his unit treated wounded North Korean soldiers and built a hospital for them, the enemy didnt return any favors. They bombed Huffords facility, thinking it was a bacteriological weapons site, although it was plainly marked with a red cross.
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