Re: Korean War, One Mans Perspective.

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In a message dated 2/20/00 2:57:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
HULLST233@aol.com writes:

<<  I,m not sure of our arrival date but it was around oct.26. >>

I landed at Wonsan on the 26th of October.  The 5th and 7th Marine Regiments 
were sent north.  I was in the 1st Marine Regiment who for a while stayed 
around Wonsan; however, my battalion was sent about 35 miles south of Wonsan 
to a small seaport village, Kojo. On the 27th (the next night after landing 
at Wonsan) of October my reinforced platoon (57 men with a machine 
gun-section) was overran and by what I believe to be a North Korean/Chinese 
regiment known as the Black Diamond Mountain Guerillas, a pre-World War II 
unit that fought the Japanese.   In 15 minutes 17 of the 57 men lived to tell 
about it. Don