320 pages on Matte; 6 maps, 65 pertinent photos, indexes, appendices, 130 first-person accounts of the first year in the Korean War. The personal accounts are chronologically placed into the abbreviated official war diaries. The detailed Battle of the Walled City where Melvin Brown battled the enemy with his shovel when he had expended his amunition and grenades. He received the Medal of Honor (posthumously).
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The Korean conflict was a hard-fought, little appreciated, landwar in Asia. The 3rd Platoon of Company "A" made headlines in U. S. newspapers as being the first American unit to cross the 38th Parallel on the ground. The Engineers, weeping for mines, led American tanks across the border. This book is a testament to courage, competence, and the incredible battlefield story of an American combat engineering platoon. "The attacking NK continued to assault Melvin Brown's position atop the wall. He exhausted his ammunition and grenades. He bandaged his shoulder wound. Now, he calmly drew his entrenching shovel from his pack and waited till they one by one peered over the wall. Then he delivered a crushing blow on each of their heads. His daring action so inspired his platoon that they repelled the attack. " And this is just one small sample of an incredible series of incidents in the Korean War. The 1st Cavalry Division And Their 8th Engineers Is Korea is easy to pick up, and hard to put down! -- Midwest Book Review
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Frank Armstrong was an officer with the engineer battalion of the 1st Cavalry Division during the first year of the war. He had also been an officer in World War II - an artillery forward observer. Armstrong has a Ph.D. and taught forestry at the University of Vermont for 25 years after his 28 years in the Army. He is listed in the 13th and later editions of Whose Who in the World and ten similar publications.
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The first year of the Korean War was a different mode of combat than World War II. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
box type mines, unoccupied hill, engineer intelligence, engineer combat battalion, motor convoy, engineer battalion, war diary Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cavalry Regiment, North Korean, World War, Division Airstrip, Naktong River, Private First, South Korean, Han River, Air Force, General Gay, War Diarv, Pusan Perimeter, Imjin River, Silver Star, Colonel Holley, Camp Drake, Eighth Army, Military Academy, Carl Hill, Medal of Honor, Silent Generation, Task Force Lynch, Bailey Bridge, Gay Road, Soyang River New!
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The first year of the Korean War was a different mode of combat than World War II. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
box type mines, unoccupied hill, engineer intelligence, engineer combat battalion, motor convoy, engineer battalion, war diary Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cavalry Regiment, North Korean, World War, Division Airstrip, Naktong River, Private First, South Korean, Han River, Air Force, General Gay, War Diarv, Pusan Perimeter, Imjin River, Silver Star, Colonel Holley, Camp Drake, Eighth Army, Military Academy, Carl Hill, Medal of Honor, Silent Generation, Task Force Lynch, Bailey Bridge, Gay Road, Soyang River New!
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