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By Douglas Rice

ISBN-10: 1450282563

ISBN-13: 9781450282567

Voices from the Korean battle offers a suite of first-person bills of these who served within the Korean struggle. The Korean struggle is frequently dubbed the "Forgotten War," even if greater than 36,000 infantrymen died during this three-year clash. In Voices from the Korean struggle, writer Douglas Rice makes definite the lads who served should not forgotten as he stocks first-person money owed from seventy-nine infantrymen who fought within the struggle from June of 1950 via July of 1953. Voices from the Korean warfare follows the warriors as they trek and fly over the mountainous terrain of the Korean peninsula. via those eyewitness money owed, pay attention a soldier describe what occurred to a small crew of North Korean villagers who refused to disclose their position. pay attention in as a wounded soldier tells a flight nurse the tale of the way he used to be rescued via American squaddies as he lay wounded in a North Korean domestic. learn the way a few prisoners of battle walked their imaginary canine to annoy their captors. This compilation of alternative squaddies' views conveys what it should have been wish to be without delay interested in the clash. It serves as a reminder of the demanding situations and the sacrifices the warriors made within the identify of battle.

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It was November and we were located in the North Korean town of Kunu-ri when the Chinese entered the war. The 2nd Infantry Division held the line while outfits on our left flank were able to get out. With the exception of us, and the 23rd Infantry Regiment, the rest of the division headed down a road only to run into the damnest roadblock ever. The Chinese had apparently broken through the ROK, who were on our right flank, and set up an ambush that was ten miles long. Our losses, both in men and equipment, were terrible.

As we made our way across a rice paddy a bullet hit me in the right arm, which spun me around and knocked me to the ground. As I was getting up to run, I felt a stinging sensation in my left buttock. The back of my pants leg was soaked, and my boot was squishing with what I thought was blood. Finally, we made it over the top of a small hill—out of the line of fire—when we stopped to assess our situation. When I reached for my canteen, it was empty. Why? I had just filled it an hour or two earlier.

This was later known as the Slaughter at Twin Tunnels. * * * * * * During the 1st and 2nd of February, our wounded were evacuated to the battalion aid station. Baker Company, along with the French, four tanks and two twin-40’s, set up a perimeter around the 37th FA. The entire 2nd Division was to take the town of Chipyong-ni, which was a few miles from the Twin Tunnels. On the 3rd of February, under a heavy barrage of fire from our artillery, mortars, tanks and twin-40’s, we took the town. The following day we moved into the town, with Baker Company, and the French being placed in reserves.

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