B: Screw the Geneva Convention, he should've been awarded the Medal at the time.
"We had been walking through piles of dead men when the general gave a
sudden start, and then stepped over to the figure of a man who was bent
over the barrel of a heavy machine gun. Very quickly, almost before I
saw what he was doing, the general took out a knife and cut the Red
Cross brassard from Ben Salomon's arm. Then he straightened up and
looked around. There were ninety-eight Japanese bodies piled up in front
of that gun position. Salomon had killed so many men that he had been
forced to move the gun four different times in order to get a clear
field of fire. There was something else that we noted, too. There were
seventy-six bullet holes in Salomon's body. When we called a doctor over
to examine him, we were told that twenty-four of the wounds had been
suffered before Salomon died. There were no witnesses, but it wasn't
hard to put the story together. One could easily visualize Ben Salomon,
wounded and bleeding, trying to drag that gun a few more feet so that he
would have a new field of fire. The blood was on the ground, and the
marks plainly indicated how hard it must have been for him, especially
in that last move," Love wrote.
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