Oral History Interview with John Lowe, Jr., August 7, 1978 Page: 26
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Marcello:Not to my knowledge. They loaded me in there and carried
me not too far to the Ford Island dispensary, which is kind
of a rectangular affair with a kind of a little square deal
in the center--a patio-type thing. So during this time the
battle is still raging, and I'm in the . . . they laid me in
one of those bunks, and all they do is put a band-aid on the
hole on my chest.
Literally a band-aid?
A band-aid, that's all. And then they also put a band-aid on
my back and said, "Lay flat!" After we'd been in there maybe
a few minutes, a bomb hit right square in the middle of that
dispensary and blew up mortar and everything. Of course,
everybody got panicky, and I jumped up and raised up. I
remember that a corpsman slammed me back down in my bunk, and
when he did my band-aid came off, and blood from my wound spewed
all over him; and that shook him up and also shook me up.
But that band-aid had effectively stopped the bleeding up to
that time?
That's right! It had! I was lucky and very fortunate that the
fact that the bullet was steel-jacketed, and it just went
straight through. But anyway, from that point on, that's where
I remained during the rest of the battle.
I assume that at this point, you were concerned about "number
one,"
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Lowe, John, Jr. Oral History Interview with John Lowe, Jr., August 7, 1978, text, August 7, 1978; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1529186/m1/28/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.