Sgt. Jack Fenwick, USMC (Ret.) was a young Marine wounded during the Korean War. He was a patient aboard
the hospital ship USS Consolation
and then at the U.S. Naval
Hospital
Yokosuka.
Later he was transferred stateside to recover from his injuries at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. While at
Bethesda he began to sketch with pen and ink,
his recollections of the Korean War. These sketches included
depictions of fierce
battles along with the corpsmen who were rendering aid to the Marines on the front line.
In
fact
Sgt. Fenwick USMC (Ret.) remembers vividly how courageous those corpsmen were. And
how compassionate the Navy Nurses he encountered were both aboard the hospital ships and
in the land based hospitals. It was then because of these fond memories for these Corpsmen
& Nurses that he wanted to make a special presentation to the Navy Nurses of the
Korean war at today's luncheon.
Dateline:Tuesday July 10 2001.....
Today at Bethesda Naval Hospital,
BUMED unveiled the
(c) 2001 BUMED ink
sketches of SGT.
John Fenwick USMC (Ret.) in a special
ceremony. Attending this grand occasion were some of the "Quiet Heroes "
nurses as
well as the Doctor (pictured in the
center-photo below) who actually saved John's life.
(c)2001 BUMED
These ink sketches were drawn by John to honor the Navy Corpsmen who served in the Korean War.