Re: South Koreans in the 7th Div.

["swan" <swan@haysco.net>]

We got in on that "integration experiment." One night we went out on patrol.
I think there were six G.I.s and an equal number of ROKs. It was very, very
cold. Gradually, the ROKs disappeared into the darkness. Only the six of us
returned together to the perimeter. We found the guys who started out on
patrol with us sitting around a small fire.

Bob Dove
1st Raider Co. 1950

----- Original Message -----
From: "Les Hanson" <hanson@totalnetnh.net>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: South Koreans in the 7th Div.


> ED,
>       " 3rd Infantry Division.Korea
> 7th and 15th  regiment sailed from San Francisco from 30th August 1950 to
> September 1950,bound for Moji Japan.
>         The Division minus the 65th Regimennt was severely short of men
and
> was given  8,500 South Korean draftees to integrate into their units.Most
> Squads of the 3rd Division contained 2 Americans and 8 koreans.By first
week
> of November ,the  3rd Division had sailed from Japan and linked up with
the
> 65th Regiment in Wonson Korea.The 3rd Division was ordered to relive the
1st
> Marine Division,block the main roads in the southen parts of the corps
zone
> against guerrillas and by-pass north koreans,and to protect the
> Wosan-Hungnam coastal strip"
>
> http://www.grunts.net/army/3rdid3.html
>
> Looks like everyone was short handed ,The 7th Division,3rd Division,and
what
> other Divisions had the same problem ???
>
> Les
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Evanhoe" <evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com>
> To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:55 PM
> Subject: Re: South Koreans in the 7th Div.
>
>
> > There is an ORO study on this subject in the Military History Institute
> files:
> >
> > http://www.carlisle.army.mil/cgi-bin/usamhi/DL/showdoc.pl?docnum=52
> >
> > It is PDF format and quite large.
> >
> > Ed
> > Ed Evanhoe, PO Box 916, Antlers, OK, 74523-0916
> > Author: DARKMOON: Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War
> > Life member: Special Forces & Special Operations Associations
> > Web site:  http://www.korean-war.com
> >
>


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