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"About 20 of us were working our way back along the road, crawling on our hands and knees. As I approached an open space I heard a voice in English say, 'Don't go across there, major. I will take you out of here.' This turned out to be Nam Gung Kag, a civilian in the R.O.K. counter-intelligence corps. Nam took us down to the edge of the North Han River and by this time we were out of the enemy fire. He said he knew where a boat was tied up, but we found it full to the sinking point with wounded. He said he knew a place where we could ford the river. Sure enough, we stripped down and waded across the freezing cold water up to our waists.
"Nam led us along the railroad track and then up a mountain trail. We walked from 1 to 8 p.m., and reached a village where Nam had an uncle. Others., reached the village and next morning about 100 of us got into a power-company boat and started south. The boat took water, and we had to put 30 out to keep from sinking. We got out of the boat at Chongpyong and got rides in here to Seoul."