Medals awarded for combat

Comments: I was wondering if anyone can tell me of any medals awarded to the 10th FA C Battery? I think the medals that I have heard about were from when an outbreak happened with the Chinese lines and the battery had to fire their weapons for 36 hours straight or something like that I am trying to replace some of my grandfathers medals. I have his service records but they are strung together from what could be restored because my grandfathers records were destroyed in the St. Louis fire. Like I said any information would be so very helpful.

Keywords: 10th FA, C Battery, medals awarded

On the High Bank of the Injim River

Comments: On the High Bank of the Injim River By Fred Sinclair

In early December of 1951 we were ordered to set up our counter-mortar radar on the east high bank of the Injim River in Korea about 2 miles east of a hill called Dagmar, more commonly known as Hill 355 or by the Chinese as Kowangsan. The headquarters camp of our 10th Field Artillery Battalion of the 3rd Division was just south of Dagmar, so we had to ford the river in our vehicles to get from headquarters to our emplacement. We were about a mile east of the line formed by the hills our army occupied and because that line crossed a wide valley where there were no emplacements we were wide open to a probing attack by a Chinese night patrol so our officers gave us a squad of Philippine soldiers for a perimeter guard. The Filipinos rumbled into our emplacement area in a beat up halftrack that had seen better days. The squad consisted of a sergeant, a corporal, and six privates but no one wore insignia, so it was difficult to tell who was in charge because they did things with out any one giving orders. The Filipinos were there to guard us and our radar at night and in the day time they were to go up a valley to where the two armies were arrayed against one another and drive slowly between the two in an attempt to draw fire from the Chinese army so our artillery could shell their positions. Now that may sound like dangerous work but, the fact is, riding in that half track may have been the safest job in that entire valley. Our side, in addition to our counter-mortar radar, had tracked-anti-artillery radar, sound stations, flash stations, and forward artillery observers embedded with the infantry, so much so, if a Chinese soldier had burped real load he would have been in danger of having a large amount of artillery fired at him with all the shells arriving at his front door at the same time and, believe me, no one in the world in their right mind would wish for that, so the experienced and well disciplined Chinese soldiers simply refused to fire on the halftrack, not ever, not with any thing. Now you would have thought the army would have sent that halftrack out for one or two days and given up on the idea, but thats not how the army works. The book called for attempting to draw fire in that situation, so for two and half months from early in December to the middle of February the Filipinos got up each morning that it didnt snow, checked the oil in their vehicle, gassed up out of jerry cans, forded the river, and went up the valley and slowly meandering through the abandoned farms on the Chinese side and coming back through the farms on the American side, dared the Chinese army to fire at them but the Chinese knew better and it never happened. The Filipinos were old line regular soldiers who told us they would rather

be in Korea with us then at home fighting the Muslim rebels. We were either draftees or reservists. We ate our C-Rations individually; the Filipinos pooled their rations, appointed one man as cook and he cooked hot meals for his buddies and they ate together. We policed our area as a unit, all together. They appointed one man to do that work and he and the cook stayed in camp. We had no musician. The Filipinos carried a guitar player and a guitar and on many nights after chow he would play the guitar and the men would sing in Spanish. The Filipinos were on average 5 to 10 years older than we. The peace talks had started in July so things were pretty quite. Dagmar was a high hill which dominated the terrain for 10 miles in every direction. In a surprise attack, the British and the Korean Army had taken the hill from the Chinese Army in October and we, the 10the Field Artillery and the 7th, 15th, and 65th Regiments of the 3rd Infantry Division were inserted there to hold that hill at any cost. The Chinese badly wanted their hill back before the peace talks ended so each month on nights when something approaching a full moon came up after 2200, the Chinese would mount a fierce attack with infantry and mortars in an effort to retake Dagmar, and we would light up the old radar and start calling in coordinates to the fire-direction center and our artillery would go to work, and after awhile the blips would slowly stop appearing on the screen and the artillery would go silent, and we knew our infantry had held once again as we knew it would, and we would close up shop for the night. But that was only three or four nights a month. We had huge search lights; the Chinese had to rely on the moon. The rest of the time we had to ourselves. About two weeks after we came together the Filipinos brought in a small deer they had killed with their 50-caliber machine gun. The Korean deer were about the size of a large dog, had tusks like a hog, and barked like a dog. The Filipinos cook using flour, potatoes and onions he had scrounged somewhere, hot chilies from a nearby abandoned vegetable garden, a cut off jerry can as a pot, and cooking over an open fire worked up an unbelievably tasty deer meat stew, and they invited us for supper. We had a beer ration of 24 cans a month and we could buy beer from the non-drinkers so each of us had a few cans stashed away and those came out to be shared with the Filipinos and after we had finished eating, the guitar man started playing and we were drinking beer together and singing songs in a language only John Ramariz, the only Latino among us, knew and before the night was over, we and the Filipinos were the best of friends. I vaguely remember getting up and dancing around the fire before I passed out. After that the meal, beer drinking, and sing along party became a regular thing on Saturday nights.. Sometimes it was deer meat, sometimes steaks we got from our mess tent and, after the two Southerners amongst us managed to put out trot lines, fried catfish. Some of the non-drinking officers were selling their whiskey rations, so occasionally we even had good whisky to share with our new friends. Our camp was set up near the remains of a Korean farmers abandoned rock house our artillery had demolished to keep it from being used as cover and there were the remains of a vegetable garden nearby and a large cornfield that had been abandoned and was drying out. The corn field was home to a flock of pheasants, so for the first and only time in my life I got to hunt pheasants. A raising pheasant is hard to hit with an army carbine, but I managed to bring down two and gained the reputation of being a much better shot then I actually was. We all carried rifles. We, carbines, the Filipinos, Garands, except for the Filipinos sergeant who carried a grease gun and we had all the ammo you could ever want, so we set up targets and held shooting contests. .I know we should be telling of the horrors of war to cool the ardor of the hot spurs amongst us instead of the telling of the more pleasurable times such as occasionally getting to enjoy outdoor life with good companions, do a little hunting, a little fishing, and occasionally fire a rifle for the pure pleasure of shooting one. However, the truth of the matter is I regard those two and a half months I spent at on the high bank of the Injim River as one of the more enjoyable interludes of my long life except for one incident that happened in early February. One afternoon the Filipinos half track rumbled into camp and stopped and the soldiers piled out of the rear and the sergeant stepped out from the shotgun seat and waved me over and gestured for me to climb up on the side and look in the troop compartment which I did and lying down in one corner huddled together in shabby worn out clothes was a Korean family, a man, his wife, a teen aged son, and two young girls and the father was staring up into my white face in abject terror of what I might do to him and his family. I stared back for a few seconds and dropped off the track I had been standing on and turned to face the other sergeant. Who are they? I asked. And looking me in the eye with a look on his brown face as though he were searching for something, he answered in English with a Spanish accent They are Korean farmers. They were out in the valley working their land at night to get it ready to plant a crop so they will have something to eat. A forward observer saw the land was being worked and called me on the radio and asked me to investigate, and I found them hiding in a burrow and he ordered me to them in. He turned and climbed into his side of the vehicle and the halftrack drove off toward the crossing on the Injim River and thats the last I saw of that Korean family but those few seconds made me realize something. We Americans and our UN allies didnt belong there and the Chinese didnt belong there either. Our separate governments were settling their differences with each other by warring with each other on another peoples land so their own lands wouldnt be devastated and there was nothing right about that. Recently, I returned to the Injim River via Goggle Maps. There was a concrete bridge where we had forded the river and just to the north of the bridge, a high steel fence on a large concrete base. The vegetable garden and the corn field were long gone and as I scanned up the valley north of the fence in what is now called in Orwellspeak the Demilitarized Zone, where once had been a patchwork of abandoned farms there was now only forest. Some people say that is good, that the land has healed itself from the ravishes of farming and the wild life and the habitat has returned to its natural state but I beg to disagree. I believe that land would have been much better cared for by that Korean farmer, his neighbors, and their descendents than by those two countries.. There were plenty of pheasants, deer, and other animals living there in 1952. I doubt seriously if they are there now. Soldiers hunt too. And why are we so arrogant that we feel we have the right to tell other people how to use their land when we have just destroyed the ecology of the Gulf of Mexico in order to have cheap gasoline for our cars? Just who are we to decide such things in another peoples land. We had no right to take that land and make a permanent war zone of it. God will judge us for that.

Acknowledgement: Much of the history and descriptions of terrain recounted in this article are based on postings of literature and maps on a website called Injim Bunker Buddies, a site dedicated to the American, Australian, Canadian and Scottish Soldiers who served near Hill 355 along the Injim River in 1951 and 1952. There is no mention of a squad of Filipino troops and a halftrack

Keywords: Hill 355 10th Field Artillery Injim River Campaign November 1951 to Febraury 1952

Korean War Battles

Comments: I would like to talk to anyone who was at any of this battles from Feb. 1952 to Mar. 1953 You can e-mail or call me. Thanks JohnTaylor

Keywords: Battle of Old Baldy, Battle of White Horse, Battle of Triangle Hill, Battle of Hill Eerie, T-Bone Hill or Pork Chop Hill

William J. Chambers

Comments: With high school students I am running a project dubbed "Hero" where I have them "adopting" fallen heroes from Walpole, MA starting with World War I. There are forty in all. We have very little information on William J. Chambers (PFC), who was attached to the 10th Field Artillery Battalion, 3rd Inf Division. He was killed in action on June 4, 1951.

Anything anyone knows about his death would be appreciated as I would like the record to be as complete as possible. Thanks !!

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Looking for buddies Lindsey from Enid Ok,Henry Poralis , Nathanal Hurd , We were base piece , I was

Comments: I am looking for Buddies that served from May 1953 throught Dec. 1953 some names were a Lindsey from Enid Ok ( a farmer ) ,Henry Poralis Moralis , Nathanial Hurd and Howard Kaughman. Any knowledge of these guys please contact me. Donald Griggs , 309-238-6098

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MEMBER 10th FABN 1951-1952

Comments: I am interested in knowing the number of rounds fired by our Battalion in the war. I think that it was over 500,000

Keywords: I have two Battle Stars, but can't remember the names of the battles

MEMBER 10th FABN 1951-1952

Comments: I am interested in knowing the number of rounds fired by our Battalion in the war. I think that it was over 500,000

Keywords: I have two Battle Stars, but can't remember the names of the battles

gunner 1st cav 99th field artillary

Comments: looking for any soldiers that were rr leave in japan

Keywords: capt. dries col.currothers albert lee pfc

My father Pablo Ramirez is looking for anyone how sereved with him 52-53 B Battery

Comments: I am looking for anyone who might remember me. James Smith from Missury, Sraff Sargent Cook, Mr. Lasel, Etc. A korean Member / friend was called Sixty Six

Today is Jan.21,2009

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Counter Mortar Radar Unit 10th FAB

Comments: We were a counter mortar radar unit composed of two 7 man crews who operated a counter mortar radar about half-way betwen the infantry and the artillery on a 24 hour on and 24 hour off basis. I supervised one crew. We operated during many battles for the hills in front of the 3rd division during the 1951-52 winter and were very suceesful in helping to knock out enemy mortars. We were at the battle for Dagmar Hill on Thanksgiving day of 1951. I was operating the set when we helped knock out a Russian made rocket launcher in the fall of 1951.

Keywords: Counter Mortar Radar Unit 10th FAB September 1951 May 1952

Looking anyone that knew my Dad Robert Lee Taylor 1951 to 1958 of De Sote, Kansas

Comments: He Past away on June 6,2008 so I would like to find out more from when he was in Korea

Keywords: Operation Counter,Old Baldy,Outpost Kelly and Porkchop Hill and many other battles

Looking for buddies of my husband

Comments: Looking for members of my husband's unit. 10th Field Artillery Battlion Headquarters Battery 3rd Division.

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Staff Sgt. Pablo Ramirez

Comments: Would like to chat with members in my unit during that service with me in Korea.

Keywords: Battery locations: Kunwa & Short1 Korea 1952-1954 Manned the 3rd Gun Houtzer.

Anyone serve with H. Cecil Payne (5th rct communications)

Comments: I'm looking for anyone who may have served with my Grandfather H. Cecil Payne, who is still alive. He served with the 5th from Dec. 1952 through the end of the war. He was in the punchbowl and a communications specialist.

Keywords: Cecil Payne, 5th rct, Fifth Regimenal Combat Team, 5th Regimental Combat Team, communications, 1953, punchbowl

Larry Rosalia (Jr)

Comments: My Name is Larry Rosalia. My nick name was Jr. I served with the 999th AFA from Jan or Feb of 1952 to November of 1952. Some of the people I remember are Bob, Goff, Hams who was wounded (Lost one of his legs). Maybe it was Potter??? We were the 3 Cabilleros. When I first got there we were in the western front. The last position in our western front is from what I can remember is when the 555th nickle took over and we heard that they had taken a direct hit. I was only 17 years old when I got there. I spent my 18th Biirthday moving to Chowan Valley. I would like to hear from anybody who remebers me. My son-in-law is doing all the writing here so write him.

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Bronze Star

Comments: My grandfather had received the bronze star for serving in the Korean war and he was in the 10th field artillery, Battery C. He never talked about how he received the medal and according to the national archives there is no record of him receiving this medal and my father and grandmother both remember holding the medal in their very hands. The medals are lost and I am trying to replace them and I would like to get these replaced if I can, so any input would be very helpful. I have also looked for a list of bronze star recipients during the Korean war but I have come up with nothing so far.

Keywords: White horse mountain,bronze star

Clifford Allen Walls

Comments: Looking for information or anyone who can tell me any information on Clifford Allen Walls who was assigned to ? Btry 10th FA Bn, from 2 November 1950 to 18 July 1951. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Keywords: ? Btry, 10th FA Bn, Nov. 1950 to July 1951

Looking for Info on my Father

Comments: MY DAD SERVED AT FT.RICHARDSON 1951-1953. i AM LOOKING FOR THE UNIT HE SERVED IN. I NEED A LIST OF ALL UNITS THERE DURING THAT TIME PERIOD SO I CAN RESEARCH THROUGH MILITARY.COM. ALL OF HIS RECORDS WERE DESTROYED IN A FIRE AT THE NATIONAL RECORDS CENTER IN 1973 ALONG WITH THOUSANDS OF OTHER SERVICEMEN'S RECORDS.

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FRANKLIN HENRY WASHBURN JR

Comments: LOOKING FOR ANY INFORMATION ON MY DAD FRANK WASHBURN, ALL I KNOW IS THAT HE WAS IN THE KOREAN WAR.

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SGT. ERIC C STRAND

Comments: Did anyone fight beside my grandfather during the Korean war? He helped overrun the famous "Iron Triangle" sector. If anyone here knew of him, please email me back.

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Bronze Star

Comments: My dad,Kenneth L.Hiney,Master Sergeant was awarded the Bronze Star during this time...He never talked about it and he passed away 14yrs ago....Wanted to know if someone could give me imformation or lead me in the right direction....Thank you very much,Kenneth M.Hiney Dec17th,1952-Sept 29th,1953

Keywords: Korea During the period of Dec 17th,1952-Sept29th,1953

INFORMATION

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Any one that knew Clarence Eugene Stowers

Comments: I was just wondering if anyone knew my gradfather during the war. He always had great stories to tell about the war and he was a great man and will sorely be missed but will always be in our hearts and he said his group received a bronze star that he never really talked about a lot and I was just wondering if anyone knew what the commendation was for because all he would say is that there was a break through in the allied lines and the Chinese would send wave after wave of men and they fired for 36 hours straight and if anyone has anything to add it would be much appreciated.

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Radio Operator

Comments: I was with HQ Btry from Feb. 52 till Feb, 1953 as a radio operator. I would like to hear from anyone who remembers me.

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