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[<SDonell73@aol.com>]

In a message dated 8/4/02 6:50:39 AM Pacific Daylight Time, swan@haysco.net writes:


> I envy historians. They know how to find stuff. Stuff that some of us would like to find, because it is part of our personal history. I would like to have a roster of our old unit, and a casualty report. I would also like to have the morning reports so I could find out just where I was nearly 52 years ago. The villages we fought over, the villages, and hills where we slept had names of some sort. Maybe our officers knew these names, and maybe they wrote them down.


Bob,

If you are serious, it's no big deal. If you were in the Army the Center for Military History web site would be a good starting place. The Army's History of the Korean War is found in five volumes that you can probably get from any library, or you can buy them from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Govt Printing Office. IO've found that it's just a matter of persistence and talking/phoning/emailing very many people/organizations. I've always seen it as a jigsaw puzzle, find a piece and then go out and find others to fit with it to form whatever level of history one wants.

The Army's five volumes are:
       Policy and Direction: The First Year
       South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu: June - November 1950
       Ebb and Flow
       Truce Tent and Fighting Front
       Theater Logistics

The call number is 951.9042.

The National Archives has much of the records regarding rosters, cas reps, etc., depending what the services have turned into the Archives.

Good Luck,

Sandy