A Hell on Earth
	A Medic's Story			6 of 8

Jerome Connolly Medic, 96th Infantry Division Took part in the invasion of Okinawa

I saw this fellow, a medic. He said to me, "Jerry, I did something last night that I never thought I'd have to do. I cut a man's arm off." Guy had it all shrapneled up, it was a piece of meat, I guess. And what are you going to say? So I said, "Gee, that's not too good, Dan. I sympathize with you." So then, the Japs started to throw more stuff in and I took my attention away from him. Then they stopped and I looked around and there was this poor fellow on the ground, moving, sort of a convulsive movement of his body, and just shaking like he was on the top of an iceberg. So we put ponchos around him to get him warm, and we did get him back. I lost all track of him and I don't know what happened. But he was the worst case of combat fatigue that I had ever seen.

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