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Korea Remembered: Enough of a War: The USS Ozbourn's First Korean Tour, 1950-1951

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Enough of a War is a fact filled account of life on a destroyer during the first six months of the Korean War. Cole gives all the monotonous details of standing four on four off watches, shipboard life in rough seas, support of aircraft carrier operations, and naval gunfire missions. There is no glamour and little glory in this tale. It is a straight forward rendering of the work involved in life at sea with the fact of a war being on giving a heightened sense of urgency. Students of naval history and readers concerned with the everyday aspects of history will enjoy this honest account of action in Korea.

I served on the USS McKean DD 784 and we were in the same
Destroyer Division 112 as the USS Ozbourn. Our ship and the
other three ships in the Division saw most of the same duty
areas. It is great to read about events that I had forgotten
after all these years. As an elisted man on the McKean we did
not have all the information that the officers had about current
events at that time. We picked up scuttlebutt and some information while serving on the bridge at different times.
Typhoon Clara is well described and that was a storm that none of us have forgotten.
I have recommended the book to many of my shipmates that served
on the McKean during our tour of duty in Korean waters in 1950-1951. Thank you for the memories and all the dates that I had
forgotten.
Richard Shaw
FT3
USN 1949-53