Re: TANK WARS

["Les Hanson" <hanson@totalnetnh.net>]

google search
what  american infantry units were on  "PORKCHOP HILL"korea?
look for this web address
www.eptours.com/the_korean_war.htm

click on korean war at top of page

"occupation forces in japan were   reduced to scavenging pacific islands
Battlesites for abandond military equipment,which was then shipped to Japan
for refurbishing"      Also info about  Tanks
My brother-inlay was at pork chop hill.this is what he told    his sister
many years ago after he came home.when he was sent into korea he was issued
a rifle ,but no ammo. now the way i understand this is  was when he got to
pork chop hill he was at that time given the ammo and was told not to fire
at anything untill someone was firing toward him.he was the smallest of his
company and he told me that at night they would send him down the hill for
ammo,Now i have no way to prove  that statement for my brother in law died
five  years ago,his heart gave out still a young man in sprit.

Les Hanson           A Longago Airman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Evanhoe" <evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: TANK WARS


>
> >Les,
>
> > >>what i'm trying to put across is that this equipment was mostly junk
after
> >been weathered out from the elements on the Island of Okinawa,typhoons
etc.<<
>
> Understood.  That is why most of the equipment was shipped to rebuild
> depots in Japan, where parts were cannibalized from several pieces of
> equipment, refurbished and assembled into a working, albeit often barely
> during the early days of this process, product.  But ammunition, rations
> and the like often went directly to Korea after years of poor storage on
> various islands.
>
> In any event, the Korean War started Japan on its way to recovery since
the
> rehab depots, and orders for trucks and other Japanese products, put idle
> factories back online and gave jobs to tens of thousand Japanese workers.
>
> Ed
>
> Ed Evanhoe, PO Box 916, Antlers, OK, 74523
> Author: DARKMOON: Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War
> Life Member:  Special Forces & Special Operations Associations
> Co-List owner: KOREAN-WAR-L  Web Site: http://www.korean-war.com
>