After groping through 12 years of darkness, a little Korean boy, Lee Toi Byun, was given his sight recently after an operation performed by Maj. G. Peter Halberg a New York eye specialist at the 121st Evacuation Hospital near Seoul. Shown examining the boy after one cataract was successfully removed are (left to right) 1st Lt. Phyllis Duke, Lee, Col. William L. Spaulding, hospital commander, and Halberg.

Col. William L. Spaulding, commanding officer of the 121st Evacuation Hospital and Eight Army consulting ophthalmologist, examines the eye of 12-year-old Lee Toi Byun. Lee just had cataract removed from his right eye by Maj. G. Peter Halberg (right), an eye specialist at the 121st. Halberg found Lee in a Korean clinic and brought him to the evacuation hospital where adequate facilities for the cataract surgery are available. Surgery on the left eye will follow soon.

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