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THE BATTALION
Tuesday, June 23, 1953
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up to the Naktong River and the
infantry boys said, “Here come
our tanks — now we’ll show the
The only catch was that our
tanks werent’ half as good as
the Russian-built T-34.
One day my tank and an
other one ran into a T-34 along
the fringe of the Pusan perim
eter. We fired a round and it
bounced right off the T-34 tur
ret. The T-34 fired and blew
the turret off the tank that was
with us. Three men died in
the tank and the other two
sneaked out the escape hatch
and got away. My tank pulled
around and we did a bugout
(retreat).
One night we set up our perim
eter near Taejon and Gook artil
lery opened up. My buddies and
I ran to a hill and began digging
with our helmets.
I found I was digging in a
mound and pretty soon I unearth
ed a dead G. I. who had been buri
ed sitting up. In his lap was a
burned-up Browning automatic
rifle and I knew the G. I. was
burned alive with a phosphorus
grenade. I pushed him out of the
way an,d sat there all night, try
ing not to look at him, while
enemy artillery kept on. I was
about ready to call it quits that
night.
In a prison at Taejon we found
six. G. I.s all with hands tied be
hind their back and bullet holes in
their heads. Someone had used
one of the six for bayonet pi’actice
We moved up the road about
half a mile. There we found a
big Catholic church. Inside we
found more than 2000 Korean
corpses, stacked up like cordwood.
They had been machine-gunned
in the church basement and then
gasoline had been poured on them
and they had been set afire. This
was what they got for being anti
communist.
Outside the church, in the yard,
were a dead priest and two dead
nuns. In a trench outside the
church we found something that
really made us sick. Kids. Hun
dreds of dead, half-burned chil
dren in a trench. That’s What they
got for being the offspring of
anti- Communists.
We got bulldozers and buried
all the thousands of dead. That
day. I realized we weren’t fight
ing humans—-we were fighting
dogs.
In Pyongyang, I remember two
dead Russian officers in the street
■—in Russian uniforms and black
Russian pistols and one was wear
ing some kind of Russian medal.
I still have it.
We moved into abandoned North
Korean army headquarters of
Gen. (Marshal) Kim II Sung.
Korean and Russian, flags, flew-
outside the headquarters. I Avalked
inside and. a portrait of Uncle Joe
Stalin frowned at me.
We went on north. The M-24
tank I was in suffered heavy
damage when a gook slipped a
thermit grenade into the am
munition trailer we were pulling,
but we got out before the big ex
plosions.
In late November we were
far north—north of Anju. A
string of Allied vehicles came
crashing down the road, head
ing south. A G. I. hollored,
“The Chinks are in the war—
They’ve hit us.” It was the first
word of a sickening, disheart
ening retreat. Our tank, run
ning on one engine, went south
with the I’est.
The retreat, by early 1951,
carried south of Seoul. And then
the hard fight northward began.
Gen. Matthew B. Hidgway was in
command and • he was later re
placed by Gen James A. Van
Fleet—a commander just as ag
gressive as Ridgway.
I joined the 24th Division in
central Korea. On my first night
of reconnaissance patrol, in a
jeep, we ran into an enemy road
block. Two guys with me were
killed. I dived over the side and
into a ditch and somehow I got
away and ran back to headquarters.
A Tank Mission
They posted me as a guide on
the lead tank of two tanks and we
went back to get the roadblock.
On the side of my tank, I re
member, was a cheeful little Negro
soldier named Jones. Just as we
got near the roadblock we ran over
a daisy chain of mines. The explos
ion played hell with our tank and
a piece of metal clipped off the
top half of Jones’ head. But the
two tanks finished off the road
block. Fifteen gooks died behind it.
I was a sergeant now and be
gan leading foot patrols. Just to
show how things can happen to
a soldier, I’ll tell a little about
one patrol, A second lieutenant,
fresh fi-om the states, arrived at
headquarters one afternoon and
was assigned to go on patrol with
me and some others the next
night. He told me: “I’m new at all
this and I’ll probably catch a
bullet right between the horns.”
Only One Patrol
The patrol went all right until
we started wading across a river
about five feet deep. A Chinese
machine gun opened up on us. I
got across the river and blew it
up with a grenade but not before
a bullet hit the second lieutenant.
He fell by the side of the river,
a bullet right between the eyes,
as he had predicted. We had to
leave him there because another
gun started firing. A slug got me
in the hip but not too bad. All
of us got back to the lines except
the lieutenant.
I left Korea in November, 1951,
served in the states and Tokyo,
and didn’t get back to Korea until
last May.
I think patrols are just as
dangerous now. The enemy is
better trained and better equip-
_ ed and just as fanatical as ever.
But the men in my outfit don’t
mind fighting- to end this war
because we didn’t want to see
our kid brothers messed up in
it. So if we have an armistice,
let’s make it stick. Let’s enforce
it. Guys have died over here.
Let it be for a good reason.
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6EWING machines. Pruitt’s Fabric Shop.
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SISTERS REUNITED—Mrs. Alfred Romero (left) of Port
Arthur, and Mrs. William H. Collig-an of Pittsburgh, Pa.,
are shown as they met in Port Arthur for the first time
in 29 years. The sisters were separated after their mother,
Mrs. Mabel McGreogr, placed them in a Tulsa, Okla., or
phanage. Mrs. Colligan was five and Mrs. Romero was
three at the time. Soon after they were adopted by differ
ent families.
66 Scouts Receive Awards
A t Camp A rrowmoon Outing
Sunday’s Court of Honor closing
the annual Boy Scout outing at
Camp Arrowmoon Sunday after
noon saw 66 boys receive 120
awards emblematic of acquisition
of scouting skills.
Nine boys advanced from tender
foot to second class, seven to first
class, six to star rank, one to life
rank, and one boy received a silver
palm on his Eagle Scout badge. In
addition, 96 merit badges were
awarded to 42 boys.
Eleven troops* from Brazos and
Robertson Counties were represent
ed at the court, which was under
direction of L. S. Paine, Brazos
district advancement chairman.
College Station Troop 102
awards were: Bill Jones, Alex
Rush, Kenneth Bailey, to second
class; David McNeely, Michael
Luther, to first class; Tom Ivy to
star rank; Tom Ivy, Michael
Luther, Jack McNeely, David Mc
Neely, Ernest Tanzer, Jim Simp
son, George Litton, Gwinn Thomp
son, merit badges. Litton received
a silver palm on his Eagle badge.
College Station Troop 411 awards
were: Richard Reiser to second
class; Jack Burns and Richard
Miller, to Star rank; Jack Burns
Center Work Resumed
Construction on the Catholic
Student Center was slowed down
last week due to some sub-soil dif
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Monday and everything else is
coming along nicely, Rev. Tim Val-
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