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Home Town brooklyn
Last Address 2372 east 5th street brooklyn ny 11223
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After service in korea my farther rasied a family of 3 children was married to the same women for 35 years beofore he died of natural causes in 1987 He never forgot he was a marine and he regreted leaving he always wished he would have made a carreer out of it
I remeber waking in the morning and unzipping his dress blues hanging in their bag and relizing the honor and galentry of the men that wore those colours although it was it not something he wanted me to experience
He instilled the values of the colours in all he came in contact with he never let you forget you were an american and told you were to go if you had second thoughts
He raised his children wiith the same honor and respect and dicipline he felt for the colours
i owe alll of my success to those 3 teaching and to him
his personel carrer changed after his service he became a computer programmer in the early computer years
he worked on programs for national defence in 1970
In 1974 he won the coast guard achivement medal for programs he wrote for the united states coast guard eastern district headquaters gouvenors island N.Y.
His last reqest was to be burried in his monkey suit as he called them (dress blues) a request that was fullfilled with great appreciation and love for his duty in the corp
I would like to thank the USMC for the honor they bestowed upon him and his family when he was intered in his final resting place
Korean War/CCF Intervention (1950-51)/Battle of the Chosin Reservoir (Battle of Changjin)
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November / 1950
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December / 1950
Description The Battle of Chosin Reservoir, also known as the Chosin Reservoir Campaign or the Changjin Lake Campaign was a decisive battle in the Korean War. "Chosin" is the Japanese pronunciation of the Korean name, "Changjin". The UN forces relied on Japanese language maps dating from their occupation of Korea which had only ended five years earlier at the conclusion of World War II. Shortly after the People's Republic of China entered the conflict, the People's Volunteer Army 9th Army infiltrated the northeastern part of North Korea.
On 27 November, the Chinese 9th Army surprised the US X Corps commanded by Major General Edward Almond at the Chosin Reservoir area. A brutal 17 day battle in freezing weather soon followed. In the period between 27 November and 13 December 1950, 30,000 United Nations troops (later nicknamed "The Chosin Few") under the field command of Major General Oliver P. Smith were encircled and attacked by approximately 120,000 Chinese troops under the command of Song Shi-Lun, who had been ordered by Mao Zedong to destroy the UN forces. The UN forces were nonetheless able to make a fighting withdrawal and broke out of the encirclement while inflicting crippling losses on the Chinese. While the battle resulted in the Chinese pushing the UN out of North Korea, it was a Pyrrhic victory. The evacuation of the X Corps from the port of Hungnam marked the complete withdrawal of UN troops from North Korea.
