Talk:Ellsworth Johnson

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Mariamnei ✦ ^{reach out 🕊️} 12:27, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

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Ellsworth Johnson in 2023

• ... that the oldest known survivor (pictured) of the Office of Strategic Services Operational Group Command initially trained as a medic but joined the service because he did not want to be a "bedpan jockey"?

• Source: “My disappointment at being a medic was great,” he wrote in a memoir, “Behind Enemy Lines: The O.S.S. in World War II” (2019). “I knew that surgical training would at least keep me out of a ward where I could expect to be no more than a bedpan jockey.”

He drew a distinction between participating on the field of combat and treating its victims after the battle.

“I wanted to get into the fight,” he said in a television interview. “I didn’t want to see the results of the fight.”

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Siege of Carthage (536)
  • Comment: 9th nom, please comment if something's wrong in the article, would gladly help fix it.

Created by DoNothingEveryday (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

DoNothingEveryday (talk) 13:47, 1 August 2026 (UTC).

• Not a review but please see MOS:SEAOFBLUE -- having two links beside each other is generally discouraged. ―Panamitsu (talk) 07:26, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

Okay, Panamitsu! I've added some alternatives for the DYKNOM, mostly just moving stuff of the hook:

* ALT0a: ... that the the oldest known survivor of the Operational Group Command (pictured) initially trained as a medic but joined the Office of Strategic Services because he didn't want to be a "bedpan jockey"?

* ALT0b: ... that the the oldest known survivor of the OGP (pictured) initially trained as a medic but joined the OSS because he didn't want to be a "bedpan jockey"?

That's the best rewording I could think of and do. Just fits the 200 character limit, I think. DoNothingEveryday (talk) 11:17, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

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