Searchlight battalion

[<rgburns@impop.bellatlantic.net>]

Ed,

I just signed up to the list serve, after my first message to you
bounced.
Hope this gets through.

I served with an engineer (or engineering) searchlight BATTALION in
Korea, from Dec. 1950 to Dec. 1951.  I was a blushing 17 year old at the

time, and not really aware of our location from day to day.  Fact is,
we moved so fast and on such a zig zag pattern up from the Pusan
Perimeter that none of us knew where we were from day to day.

I seem to recall that when we shipped out in Dec. 51, we were told
that the battalion would be broken up into companies, to improve
tactical deployment (whatever that meant).  At any rate, I'm trying
to identify my unit.  I want to say the 486th Engineering Searchlight
Battalion.
But it could be the 86th something or other.  Not a company however,
because
we had at least three searchlight companies and one HQ.  The web
sites I've seen id three searchlight companies:  61, 86 and 92.

Our unit made the conversion of the generator and light, from tractor
drawn
trailers, to the bed of a 5-ton truck.

Appreciate anything you or the other GIs on this Internet line can add
to fill in
my own history.

ThanQ
Ron G. Burns
519 Summit Court
Media, PA 19063

rgburns@bellatlantic.net