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I have just finished writing a book about the
USS Greer County (LST-799) titled One Ship, Two Wars. The book follows
the LST-799 through her service in WWII and Korea. I have written ten or fifteen
pages about the Hungnam evacuation in late December 1950, where the 799 was the
last ship off the beach the day before Christmas. The most poignant aspect of
this part of the book is the effort on the part of the American Military to
remove 100,000 Koreans from the sure grasp of the advancing communists. Along
with Army artillery units, the 799 took aboard several hundred Korean Christians
and removed them to Pusan. Dr. Bong Hak Huang, a Korean physician and Christian,
was instrumental in getting the job done.
The book is published by Great Circle Books and
should be available by late July.
If I can be of any help, you may contact me as
shown below.
Dick Tunison
805 NW 145th Cir
Edmond, OK 73013
405-302-0007
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