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Show he received two additional pints. At Pusan, before being sent to an army hospital in Japan, he received re-ceived eight pints of whole blood. ' "The simple fact is," he said, "if that blood hadn't been there, I wouldn't be here." iously wounded, received so much blood that his attending army physician joked that he was "no longer kin to his parents." One pint of blood plasma was administered adminis-tered on the spot where he was wounded, by an army medical corpsman. Then, because litter bearing teams had been wiped out by the same heavy enemy fire which wounded him, the Williamsburg Williams-burg soldier was forced to crawl 400 yards to the nearest road, where he was picked up by ambulance ambu-lance and taken to an aid station. At the station he received another pint of plasma and on the same day, was put aboard a train and taken to Pusan. While on the train Pvt. Douglas Dewing, a wounded wound-ed Korean soldier into whose being be-ing were poured one and one-half gallons of Red Cross collected blood and plasma after he was ser- |