Outpost Kelly: A Tanker's Story

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Jack R. Siewert

In the second year of the Korean War, Jack Siewert
commanded a platoon of five M-46 tanks.

Temporarily assigned to provide fire support for
an infantry battalion on the front, he eventually
found himself in the midst of intense fighting for
a relatively unknown and unimportant hill, code
named Outpost Kelly. Those four days of battle
against Chinese forces form the heart of this
memoir, which is unique in its focus on the hill
fighting that dominated two thirds of the Korean
War. Trained to take advantage of his tanks
mobility, his ordersto provide direct fire
support for advancing infantryalong with the
mountainous terrain and the torrential monsoon
rains that created shin-deep fields of
impenetrable mud, forced him to abandon doctrine
and improvise.

Publisher: University of Alabama Press, 2006

ISBN: 0817353410, 9780817353414

Length   156 pages

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