This Fake Surgeon Saved Lives

This is the story of how con artist Fred Demara actually saved lives while imitating a Naval surgeon during the Korean war (why would he do that, you ask? He does have a great answer)!

In 1951, a young doctor named Joseph Cyr sailed out as a Naval surgeon during the Korean War.One little thing: Joseph Cyr was back home in Canada, watching Degrassi or whatever, and the man on the ship was notorious con artist Fred Demara imitating him.