Utkewicz, USNR, insisted on joining the corpsmen at the forward station and remained there throughout the entire battle.
Bougainville was the first time in combat for the corpsmen assigned to the 3d Marine Division.
Wolf later painted a grim picture of the taut circumstances under which the medics worked: Several of my brave corpsmen were killed in this action.
Corpsmen (and Marines) were in deadly peril atop the ridge.
With omnipresent corpsmen on the front lines in every battle and aid stations and field hospitals right behind, the riflemen knew they had been well tended.
He and three other corpsmen were assigned to the forward aid station located at the top of that bloody ridge.
Corpsmen were shot as they treated the wounded right at the battle scene; others were shot as the Japanese ignored the International Red Cross emblem for ambulances and aid stations.
Corpsmen painted many Marines with skin infections with tincture of merthiolate or a potassium permanganate solution so that they looked like the Picts of long ago who went into battle with their bodies daubed with blue woad.
Many young Marines were not aware until combat just how close they would be to these corpsmen who wore the Marine uniform, and who would undergo every hardship and trial of the man on the line.
In many cases company corpsmen were just as tough and combat-savvy as the Marines they accompanied.
Exactly half of the awards issued to Marines and corpsmen of the V Amphibious Corps were posthumous.
Chaplains of all religious persuasions heroically ministered to all Marines and Corpsmen throughout the thick of the fighting at their own risk.
Twenty-three doctors and 827 corpsmen were killed or wounded at Iwo Jima, a casualty rate twice as high as bloody Saipan.
The practice of integrating surgeons, chaplains, and corpsmen within the Fleet Marine Force units continued to pay valuable dividends.
Illustration: Marines and corpsmen scramble ashore and seek any cover they can to escape the incoming murderous enemy mortar and artillery fire.
I just don't want Corpsmen fighting on the street.
A Corpsman is supposed to be able to handle five civilians, not five Corpsmen to one.
Instantly the five Corpsmen jumped back and, so ingrained was the training he had received, so did Hanlon, to come at salute as they saw a High Admiral climbing out of a ground-cab at the curb.
General Shepherd described the corpsmen on Okinawa as “the finest, most courageous men that I know .
Three corpsmen received the Medal of Honor (see sidebar).
Hospital corpsmen began delivering some of the casualties from the Kunishi and Hill 69 battles to this improbable airfield.
Our doctors and corpsmen of the Sanitary Regiment did everything possible and rendered admirable service; but what could even the best intentioned do without equipment?
Our own Army doctors were at once incorporated in this improvised hospital's staff, with corpsmen assigned to duty in its wards.
As he remembered the stories, though, corpsmen seemed to appear from nowhere when there was serious trouble.
The Corpsmen wore regulation uniforms or the coveralls of the mechanic; there were a number in fatigues; some men wore helmets; they were an unshaven lot.
He explained that the Corpsmen were deaf; then, as Dennison handed back the bottle, the boy began to shout and point: he indicated the roof of one of the buildings across the square.
Some of the corpsmen at Red Beach, who went to the assistance of wounded artillerymen, became casualties themselves.
Illustration: On D-Day, among the shadows on the jungle floor, Navy corpsmen administer emergency treatment to a wounded Marine.
Besides the vast armada of naval planes, ships, and landing craft, there were Navy chaplains and corpsmen (two specialties which are always Navy).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corpsmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
