Evening star., 1950-09-29

> II. shinka. the same ma
.,chine gun, is in Bethesda Naval
Hospital to recuperate and &c
try to erase the memory from ms
f1nind.
He was leading platoon from
the 1st Provincial Marine brlgaoe
OF the 5th Marine Division when
he was wounded on August II.
1t. Shinka had to repeat an
:swers to reporters questions sew
eral times because the compress
covering his mouth and jaw made
lit difficult for him to be under
STOOD.
tget. TO the top Of NO Name
sRidge.'" he said. "The fighting
was bitter and costly. Out OF
the IS men from my platoon who
went up the hill, only six OF us
got out.
"They were some of the best
smen I've ever known. None OF
them was scared. That's some
thing you never find in battle"
1 1t. Shinka was hit. he said,
iwhen the order came for his
| platoon to move from the crest
! of the hill to the protection of a
Ireverse slope near the bottom.
i IT was crawling along the
ground, telling my men to with
draw, when the machine-gun bull
lets hit me-" he said. "I turned
my platoon over to the platoon
sergeant and walked back to the
aid station"
: Veteran of Pacific.
During World War II, 1t.
.shinka was a technical sergeant
with several Marine fighter groups.
He served on Guadacanal, Mid
way Island. Russell Island in the
Solomon Island group and aboard
an aircraft carrier, the U.S.S.
Rendova..
He won his commission In 1948
at Quantico. after seven years in
the enlisted ranks. After he is
returned to duty, he said, he
hopes to stay in the Marine Corps.
1t. Shinka's wife, Jamie P.
shinka, "a. and daughter Jo-
hanna. 4, are staying in Wash
ington with her friends. His
parents live in Windber, Pa.
In Walter Reed Hospital two
young WASHINGTON lieutenantS
who were buddies at West Point
sare reliving more pleasant
smemories while being treated for
ttheir Korean war wounds.
I The two officers, both "a years
iold, are Daniel E. Bolte, SON of
.Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Charles L.
lBolte, Fort Lesley J. McNair. and
Trevor w. SWEET. jr., son of Col.
send Mrs. SWEET of 4402 Stanford
street, Chevy Chase. Gen. Bolte
is the Army's assistant chief of
.staff for operations.
They arrived along with three
sother wounded soldiers, one from
the District and the others from
sArcola, Va, and Baltimore.
The District soldier is Corpl.
Howard Yates, 81, colored. Of 122
Sixteenth street Sc. Pfc. Earl
C. Roles, 20, lives in Arcola, and
sSergt. 1Ic Joseph c. Gilbert. 90,
Lives in Baltimore.
On Track Team Together.
: Its. Bolte and SWEET were on
sthe West Point track team to-
sgether and were graduated in the
sclass of 1949.
1--WE were pals at West Point" /"
said 1t. SWEET, land had fun to-
sgether before we graduated.
1t. SWEET was leading colored
platoon of the 25th Infantry Divi-
sion when he was wounded on Au-
gust 81.
1--WE were sitting on top of
Battle Mountain at high noon
when I got hit" he said. 1.-THE
North Koreans hit my platoon
with hand grenades. That's when
I got 1t in the left leg and left
arm.
about Is seconds later, a NOR
tar shell landed in our hole. ]
was partly blown out Of the hole
by the blast. Part of my left hip
went with the explosion"
1t. SWEET then told how he founS
o North Korean soldiers helmet,
which he used to protect himself
from shell fragments, as he
crawled and hobbled back down
the hill to safety.
'I didn't want to use the he'll
met" he said, "for fear that our
own men would shoot at me, but
I had to use something"
1t. SWEET had high praise for
the colored boys in his unit.
= "If 1t hadn't been for them,
he said, "I wouldn't have gotten
out" The trip back to the aid
station took five hours. he said.
1t. Bolte was leading a 1st
Cavalry Division machine-gun
platoon near Taegu when he was
hit on September 2.
Raised Too Far.
"I was checking our position, y
he said, when the North Koreans
attacked. I found a gap in our
lines with an abandoned machine
gun nearby, which I took over
While trying to get better view
of the attacking Reds I raised my
head bit too far. That's when
] got hit.
"a single round hit me, I be-
lieve," he added. 1.-The shot hit