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Anyone who was in Korea, 22 April 1951 when the CCF over ran our positions, then knows what all took place that evening.
My unit was ordered to move back to the next hill and to cover our people who were high tailing south.
I was on a 50 Cal. MG and as we were headed south to the next set of hills, we ran into a group of Turks marching in formation. As they approached us, the leader, asked us in perfect English as to where we were going. We explained our mission and I can remember him looking at us, saying "but the fighting is in the other direction" We tried to tell him the Chinese were all over the place, but he said they were headed to the battle.
That was the first and only time I had met any Turks in Korea. I often wondered what happened to them.
John Sonley Korea 1951
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