Korea was a bloody mess.
One of my older relatives had a huge mass of scar tissue on his left foot. I asked him about it and he showed me the entrance wound near the heel on the bottom of the foot.
I asked how he managed to get shot in the bottom of the foot and he mimicked running from the shooter.
He's been hit by a burst from a burp gun while running for his life from a Chinese human wave attack. He'd been on a ridge and the impact spun him around and caused him to fall over the steep edge of a winding road. He regained consciousness hanging by his broken foot wedged in a fork of a tree about thirty feet above the ground on a switchback far below where he had been. What woke him was the sounds of a dozen or so Chinese beating the bushes where they thought he had fallen. Luckily they never looked up in his tree. He passed out again and woke after nightfall and managed to get down out of the tree.
He managed to get to our lines by crawling in ditches and hiding in brush when too tired to go on. The Army surgeons managed to save his foot.
