Paul Conley wrote on 2008-11-28 21:14:10.0
Comments: SUBJECT: Request for Purple Heart award to Jimmy Royce Cornell, RA 25 721 214, and Harold A. Wise, US 55 221 273
Statement of in line of duty injury report
I am Jimmy Royce Cornell, RA 25 721 214. From June 1952 to December 1952, I was assigned to Company A, 1stBn, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, APO 248, Korea.
On 11 October 1952, I was in the open, walking, with full combat gear, rifle, ammunition, and back pack, in the direction of my assigned Bunker, with PFC HAROLD A WISE, US55221273, on my right side, when a Chinese Artillery round bursted like a bomb, and shattering into many fragmented metal pieces, to the right side of PFC Wise.
PFC HAROLD A WISE, US55221273 took the majority of the immediate Chinese Artillery round burst and fragmentation, and died instantly. I was blown to my rear and left, about twenty-five feet, suffering concussion to my head and body, and I took fragmentation from the initial artillery round burst, in my right upper backside.
Immediately after the Chinese Artillery burst, other members of my unit came to our assistance. One of the unit members got me up off the ground and asked me if I was all right, I was completely disoriented and in shock. Unit members moved me up to the Bunker I had been preceding too before the random Chinese artillery round had messed up my day, and killed in action PFC Wise.
Company A, 1stBn, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division unit morning report establishes that PFC Wise was killed in action on the 11 October 1952. There is no entry of my injuries due to the Chinese artillery round burst, with that of PFC Wises death. I was not evacuated to the Battalion aid station, nor seen by medical personnel. In December 1952 I was reassigned to HHC, 1stBn, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division from Company A, 1stBn, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division.
After the Chinese Artillery round burst, someone had decided that as many able body men had to stay up at the bunkers to stop any immediate Chinese penetration of our lines. I never went to the battalion aid station. I remained at my duty station until my unit was relocated a few days later.
Again I was never seen by unit or other medical personnel prior to my discharge, 5 June 1954.
A year after my discharge I still had back pains and fragmentation oozing from my upper back. My current wife remembers using tweezers to remove several pieces of metal during first four years after my discharge. I have the scars in my upper back, were the fragmentation oozed from.
I am requesting that my military service record and my DD214 be corrected to show wounds received on 11 October 1952 in Korea, as a unit member of Company A, 1stBn, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry
After my research I noticed that PFC Wise was not awarded a Purple Heart as I am requesting for myself. I am requesting that Purple Heart be awarded to PFC Wise, and me.
Keywords: Company A, 1stBn 9th Inf Regiment, January 1952 to December 1952. Injury Witness.
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