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April 24th, 1951, was a lonely, moon-lit night in Korea. On a godforsaken hill, a few hundred surrounded Canadian soldiers waited for the fight of their lives to begin. Soon, Chinese communist troops in their thousands, swarmed around them, plunging straight towards the Korean capital, Seoul. These Canadians were all that blocked the way. This is the story of the first battle by Canada's first soldiers in the Korean War: the 2nd Battalion of Princess...
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In this revised edition, men from the army, navy, and air force are honoured for their bravery in the Korean War. The Korean War (1950-53) forms a little-known but exciting part of Canada's military history. The heroism and sacrifice of Canadians who fought in this conflict as part of the United Nations force has often been ignored. In this lively, anecdotal book, John Melady combines archival material and interviews with many Korean veterans. The...
8) Gran Torino
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A Korean War vet living in Detroit defends his neighbours, Asian immigrants who are being targeted by a local gang that feeds on violence and fear.
10) M*A*S*H
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Classic American war comedy focusing on the antics of three army surgeons during the Korean war, who develop a lunatic lifestyle to help them handle the horrors encountered everyday in their Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.
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When the communist-backed army from the north invades her home, sixteen-year-old Haemi Lee, along with her widowed mother and ailing brother, is forced to flee to a refugee camp along the coast. For a few hours each night, she escapes her family's makeshift home and tragic circumstances with her childhood friend, Kyunghwan.
13) Recalled to Duty
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Lee Harrison Stewart, a Seaman Apprentice, was stationed at a backwater naval station in Astoria Oregon, working in the Communications Center. He had just re-enlisted for six years to attend the Navy's Electronics school at Great Lakes Naval Training Center. There was a massive screw-up with a machine card's punched hole indicated he had just graduated, awaiting assignment. The Communications Officer was very upset at Stewart believing he was lying...
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On September 27th, 1950, the USS Hoquiam PF-5 was re-commissioned into the US Naval Service as a combatant. This ship was originally commissioned at Mare Island Naval shipyard in 1944, to serve as an escort vessel, manned by the USCG in the North Pacific. In early 1945, during Operation Hula, she and 27 other Patrol Frigates were transferred to the Soviet Navy under Lend-Lease. After long bickering and arguments, the USSR returned 27 of the 28 Patrol...
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Table of Contents:
• Introduction
• The GARRYOWEN
• The Author
• Legacy of the 7th Cavalry
• Genera George A Custer
• From the Commanders
• The Commanders
• ADVANCE TO THE REAR
• COUNTERATTACK
• CHINESE SPRING OFFENSIVE
• IRON TRIANGLE
• Campaigns
• Medal of Honor
• Charts
• Extracts
• Esprit de Corps to the GARRYOWEN
• OCCUPATION DUTY IK Chapter II JOURNEY INTO WAR
• PUSAN PERIMETER
• THE BREAKOUT
• CROSSING...
16) You Tremble Body
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Commissioned in the US Infantry after two years Royal Canadian Army and a year training in the US Army Air Force, ending in Czechoslovakia facing Ruskies and Dud's rifle platoon is overrun on an outpost and he plays dead while the screaming Chinese Fourth Field Army trots by. On the 23rd of the May Massacre clipped by a sniper, much more misery and home to brood over bloody scenes. Locating a few fellow survivors, inspired to put it all down, YOU...
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The Special Activities Group (SAG) and its subordinate companies have received little attention from historians, despite being an elite combat unit and participating in highly classified and dangerous missions in Korea. Rarely receiving more attention than a footnote, their story usually begins and ends on the night of September 12,1950, with an amphibious raid near Kunsan. Until their inactivation on March 31, 1951, SAG simply disappears from most...
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HEARTS OF IRON is the epic true story of a little-known but significant part of the Korean War, told by the brave men of the Flame Platoon, First Tank Battalion, First Marine Division. This book shares the honest, personal accounts of combat, fear, death, and survival of these comrades of the Forgotten War, most of whom were not even trained to be Flame Tankers yet fought with weapons possessing some of the most lethal fire ability of any rolling...
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Korea, December 1950. The temperature has plunged to 20-degrees below zero. Cold enough to crack rocket-launcher ammo wide open. But not cold enough to stop a massive Communist assault against U.S. forces. As the 8th Army retreats, the Marines dig in at Chosin Reservoir and are quickly cut off and surrounded. This is the riveting account of what happened next. The brilliant Marine attack that was to become a classic in military operations. The personal...
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