Corporal Wendell H. Treffery of Terryville, Conn., a medic of the 7th Division, got it Nov. 30, 1950 south of Changjin Reservoirfirst a wound in the chest, then the onrush of screaming Chinese.
The march north to the P.W. camp at Kanggye lasted 18 days. Treffery woke up one morning to find his feet frozen. Within minutes the Chinese had him marching again. The Chinese turned the prisoners over to the North Koreans. "The Koreans were worse than the Chinese," found Treffery. "They have no feeling for human beings. They'd stick our men...
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