MEN AT WAR: Strictly Business

Stunned and bleeding, T/5 Louis F. Korineck Jr. of Manitowoc, Wis. turned up at a battalion aid station of the 38th Division on Luzon this week, demanding to know all the details about his wound. A doctor told him a bullet had penetrated his helmet above his left ear, creased his scalp and passed out of the helmet above his right ear. Then Korineck remembered something more important than treatment: "Call the sergeant right away," he shouted. "Tell him that sniper is right where we thought he was."

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