Korean War veteran remembers patrolling front lines with only a medical bag and camera elisfkc2 / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 Korean War veteran remembers patrolling front lines with only a medical bag and camera “That’s a helicopter bringing men down to the (121st Medical Evacuation Hospital) from the front line,” Greenway said, holding a photo of a military helicopter. The helicopter in Greenway’s photo looks like the helicopters that flew across the opening credits to the television show M*A*S*H. “They had a stretcher on the outside, one on either side,” Greenway recalled. Big plans Greenway graduated from high school in 1949, only four years after the end of World War II. He knew from news reports that America had started drafting young men to serve in the new war in Korea. Greenway said he had a plan.