 He was a corpsman, which is the Navy version of a medic. A medic is a guy who goes out and has medical stuff with him, and if somebody gets wounded, he tries to patch them up. Frequently, medics and corpsmen save people's lives, and they get shot at. So Wally was a corpsman in the Pacific Theater of Operations of World War II. He didn't talk much about it. He did mention Tarawa.