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FORTUNE COOKIES
- Premature Invitation to a dance: Hsin Ho
- Did you ever read WEB Griffith's USMC series? Remember the kid who shot hell out of
a bunch of Japanese "bandits" on a USMC supply detachment? Truth is stranger than fiction. This
action took place in China, before the Korean War. A precursor of things to come.
- The Ball Begins: 2nd Platoon, E/2/5, 1st Mar Div at Pusan
- The first Marine Division that first fought in the Korean War were some of the finest men
who ever wore the uniform of the United States Marine Corps.
- Chindong-ni: D/2/5 and the cost of leadership
- The NKA were expert fighting men. Attacking them, D Company went from strong leadership to no leadership in a matter of a few minutes. The officers and NCOs were not decimated, they were eliminated.
- Postoak: Facing the enemy, prone, in firing position ... ?
- You see the strangest things, in hospitals. Postoak had the most unusual wound
I ever saw.
- Jim Johnson, USMC: The citation reads ...
- Those of us who knew Jim Johnson well, as Paul Harvey says, can tell the rest of the story.
- ...
OUR NAVY
- Depth Charging: APD 125, Wantuck at Kodiak
- Whether it was a real Russian midget sub, or a gremlin, or whatever, the Navy didn't
fool around when it had unknown underwater targets in sensitive harbors.
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