The platoon was being shot to pieces on a knoll and Fenwick, trying to hold off infiltrators, was hit by four machine gun bullets. He was two days from being sent home and did not need to go on the patrol, but felt he should go along to help a green lieutenant. In October 1951, northeast of Inje, Fenwick accompanied a patrol that was sent out to capture a prisoner for interrogation. He received a Navy Cross for his actions during the Marine breakout at the Chosin Reservoir in December 1950. Fenwick, now 71, was a machine gun squad leader in Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines. At a ceremony at the National Naval Medical Center, reproductions of 10 of Fenwick's sketches were donated to the hospital. Another shows grim-faced corpsmen preparing grievously wounded Marines for evacuation.įenwick and his sketches returned to Bethesda last week. One showed an ambushed field ambulance, riddled with bullets, with dead soldiers spilling out onto the bloodied ice. The drawings were stark and unforgiving, like the war. John Fenwick picked up a pad and began sketching. A half-century ago, recuperating at Bethesda Navy hospital from severe wounds he had suffered in the Korean War, Marine Sgt.
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