Priest
Wounded By
Red Land Mine Evacuated
With United Nations Forces In Korea, April 30
(NC
) --- Rev. (Major) Joseph A. Dunne of New York, chaplain with the
187th Airborne Regimental Combat! Team, who was wounded by a Communist
land mine near the 38th Parallel in Korea on March 28, has been
evacuated in good condition to an Army hospital In Japan.
Father Dunne jumped with the paratroopers on Good Friday morning
outside the town of Munsan. During ensuing days the troopers encountered
bitter resistance. He celebrated Easter Sunday Mass for them under fire.
The chaplain was on his way to a forward clearing station when a
front wheel of the ambulance on which he was riding passed over a mine.
Father Dunne, who was standing on the ambulance running board, was
wounded. He was taken out by helicopter from the front-line area and
brought directly to No. 8055 Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.
.Father Dunne, who had. previously served with paratroopers, arrived in
Korea July 12. He served as chaplain in Pusan port area for more than
three months and was awarded the Bronze Star medal for his work there.
He received his promotion as major the day after making the Munsan jump.
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