When 22 year-old 2nd Lt. DudleyHughes received orders to Korea, while stationed at Fort Bliss in the summer of 1952, he was not exactly elated but neither was he surprised. The Korean conflict had begun on the heels of WorldWar II and most of his adult male friends had seen military service. His main regret was leaving behind his beautiful wife, Robbie, after less than one year of marriage.Dudley and his twin brother, Dan, also asecond lieutenant, were allowed to serve together. They arrived in Korea in December 1952 and were assigned to separate front-line platoons, manning quad-50 machine gun halftracks. Dudley and Dan helped develop techniques that made it possible to fire multiple quad-50s at unseen targets, thereby creating a wall of fire that terrorized attacking enemy infantry and changed the course of the war. This accurate historical record is personalized by a "diary" derived from excerpts of daily letters written by the author to his young wife, lending the history a sense of immediacy and intimacy.
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Dudley J. Hughes is a Korean War veteran and a highly respected geologist whose career is highlighted by success in exploration and production of oil and gas. He has published a number of scientific papers and a history of the oil business entitled "Oil in the Deep South," published by the University of Mississippi Press. He lives in Flowood, Mississippi.
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An interesting story about the experiences of quad-fifty antiaircraft artillery in Korea. Low intensity writing made it hard to maintain interest.
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indirect fire technique, battery headquarters, azimuth scale, regimental sector, battalion reports, fire direction center, gun settings, ooo rounds, firing data, field artillery battalion, ooo yards, enemy trenches, trench lines Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, Smoke Valley, North Koreans, Korean War, Heartbreak Ridge, Fort Bliss, Infantry Division, Lieutenant Whitlock, South Korea, Lieutenant Davis, Sergeant Main, Colonel Light, National Guard, San Francisco, Lieutenant Baker, Lieutenant Lee, United States, Luke's Castle, North Star, Cold Bay, Soyang River, Inchon Bay, Sea of Japan, Camp Drake, East Texas New!
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indirect fire technique, battery headquarters, azimuth scale, regimental sector, battalion reports, fire direction center, gun settings, ooo rounds, firing data, field artillery battalion, ooo yards, enemy trenches, trench lines Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, Smoke Valley, North Koreans, Korean War, Heartbreak Ridge, Fort Bliss, Infantry Division, Lieutenant Whitlock, South Korea, Lieutenant Davis, Sergeant Main, Colonel Light, National Guard, San Francisco, Lieutenant Baker, Lieutenant Lee, United States, Luke's Castle, North Star, Cold Bay, Soyang River, Inchon Bay, Sea of Japan, Camp Drake, East Texas New!
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- The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea by James Brady on page 185, and Back Matter
- Korea: The First War We Lost by Bevin Alexander in Back Matter
- The Korean War: The West Confronts Communism by Michael Hickey in Back Matter
- War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars by Andrew Carroll in Back Matter
- Encyclopedia of the Korean War by Spencer Tucker in Back Matter
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