Re: Fwd: M Company photo

[Robert <wanaki@infi.net>]

Gernilee
I am very familiar with the travesty of the 24th being sent from 
garrison duty to combat ill trained and ill equipt. I was curios as to 
what specific parent org. "M" Co. was from. Thank you.

Gernilee Carter wrote:

> Robert,
>    Picture taken at Camp Wood, Sazbo, Japan.  Within two months of 
> that picture most of the men on that picture would be dead or POW.   
> Speaking of lousy rifles, bazookas and other weapons of battlefield 
> destruction.  What they had did not work.  Would not have mattered too 
> much anyway if you see the battle drawings.
> 21st/ 3rd/ Co. M. was surrounded on both flanks by the North Koreans 
> (8th Army I think? - hey guys correct me, I don't have my research 
> with me) while the T-34s came down through the middle of them while 
> surrounded on both flanks.   anti-tank weapons bounced off the tanks.  
> ' Boys right from partying in Japan,  not much training,  inoperable 
> equipment. ..   But they performed the "delaying tactic" which is what 
> MacArthur knew, obviously, was the only thing they were capable of at 
> the time and how swiftly he moved them over there.
>   Hey! did it cause much of a delay?
>      Gernilee
>
>
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