Above & Beyond

At West Point, Richard Shea doggedly set one Academy record after another on the track field: the indoor mile (4:10), and both the indoor and outdoor twomile. Turning up in Korea in the closing weeks of the fighting. 2nd Lieut. Shea led a platoon of Able Company, 17th Infantry Regiment on Pork Chop Hill. One night the company was heavily hit by a Chinese attack, but stood its ground. Lieut. Shea led two counterattacks that night and three the next day. His own company was cut up; he himself got a shrapnel wound in the neck. But doggedly refusing evacuation, he joined up with

George Company in one more attack. He was not seen again, and is now listed as missing in action.

Last week Lieut. Shea was recommended for the Congressional Medal of Honor, for valorous action "above and beyond the call of duty." So far, exactly 100 Medals of Honor have been awarded for the Korean war: 61 in the Army, 34 to Marines, four in the Navy, one in the Air Force.