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February NewletterKorean War Project
P.O. Box 180190
Dallas, TX 75218-0190
214-320-0342
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/newsletter_feb01.html
February 6, 2001
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February 2001 Newsletter
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Table of Contents
1. Special Report On The Project | Possible Downtime
2. 1st Marine Tank Bn - Flame Tanks 1950-53
3. DNA Database | Finding the Families
4. Book on Women in Korea - In the Works
5. Christmas Story 2000 - Shank's Booties - follow up
7. Membership Drive | Credit Card service now available
8. Awards - Korean War Service Medal
9. Upcoming Tasks
10. Williams Run Apartments - Thanks to all - postscript
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1. Special Report On The Project | Possible Downtime
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We are in the middle of testing our new DSL Internet
connection.
Some of you will not be able to access the site for up to
72 hours beginning Wednesday evening, February 7. Email may
also not go through for the same time period. Please be
patient
Testing has been going on for two weeks as we move to
increase the speed of the site.
We are also upgrading our software and hardware.
The web address and our email will continue to be the same.
Site: https://www.koreanwar.org
Email:
tbarker@kwp.org and hbarker@kwp.org
This change will allow many more people to access the site
per hour. The change should also increase the speed of
downloading pages to your computer.
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2. 1st Marine Tank Battalion - Flame Tanks 1950-53
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Input needed:
I would like to hear from Korean veterans who have observed
our flame tanks in operation during 1950-1953. We were flame
tanks, Headquarters Company, First Tank Battalion, First
Marine Division.
Presently writing a book called Flame Dragons, and it will
include all supporting arms we were involved with.
My tour was as a tank crew member during September 1952 until August 1953 on the Western Front.
Also had a contact with
the 25th Lightning Bolt Division. Great bunch of soldiers I
met during the Western Front Replacement shift.
Semper Fi.
JERRY RAVINO
jravino@hotmail.com
13826 Mission Oaks Blvd.
Seminole, FL 33776
PH. 727-593-3231
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3. DNA Database | Finding the Families
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The Korean War Project announces the "Finding The Families"
project. "Finding The Families" is designed to develop
additional awareness of the need to find family members
of Korean War Missing In Action servicemen.
Many of you noted last August that the Korean War Project
flagged all MIA's for whom DNA samples are needed for
future identification. We have included numbers
for family members to call to request more information
on the DNA program.
As part of an independent government financed program,
genealogists are also researching the whereabouts
of specific surviving family members of servicemen.
We have encouraged the government genealogists to use
the Korean War Project to develop all possible information.
More on this project shortly.
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4. Book on Women in Korea - In the Works
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Help needed: contact writer
Joanne McFadden
mjoanne1@nycap.rr.com
From Joanne;
I am always looking for women who were in Korea during the
war (or research materials concerning them), and I welcome
any assistance. I am also looking for the stories that men
have about the women who were there (nurses, Red Cross,
and USO). I have had a hard time collecting these stories,
but I know that I would be remiss in writing the women's
history without including memories of the men for which
they cared. I have been doing research and writing on this
topic for six years now. I have a mini archive in my study
and have contacted women from all over the world. It's a
fascinating topic.
Joanne McFadden
2 Imperial Lane
Charlton, NY 12019-2603
(518) 384-0942 (phone/fax)
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5. Christmas Story 2000 - Shank's Booties - follow up
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The story that Dave Hughes allowed the KWP to use on Christmas
Day about Lt. Shank and the blue booties resulted in a huge
amount of email to Dave Hughes, Hal and I.
Many of you sent your own recollections of winter in Korea
and almost all wanted to know what happened to Lt. Shank.
Col. Hughes said that the Lt. made it home and his Mom showed
him the story in Ladies Home Journal. Lt. Shank called Dave
at Fort Benning in 1952. No further contact has been made
since then.
I think it would be great to find the Lieutenant and his son
to see how things turned out for them.
Note: the story is still available on the KWP main page!
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7. Membership Drive | Credit Cards
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As always, our Membership Drive really needs your help.
We are still behind in our goal to reach 5000 members.
The Korean War Project is free to all visitors, but our
members keep us online.
If you are not a member, please consider joining. It only
costs $15.00 per year and helps keep the Korean War Project
online.
To become a member, go to:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/membership.html
Note: those who wish to use online credit card may now do so
thanks to AOL Foundation's Helping.org. Click on the graphic
"Donate now" in the Membership page and follow the form
instructions.
Standard mailing address is the same, see Membership page.
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8. Awards - Korean War Service Medal
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We have seen notices that the delivery of the award is in
backlog status with delays of a couple of months.
If you have a request in at Air Force, you may want to call
the (800)558-1404 number to inquire.
How to order the award: still on the KWP main page, right
column or the page:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/korean_war_service_medal.html
(note: underscores, not hyphens, between letters)
Those who have received the award have said it is very nice.
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9. Upcoming tasks
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We hope to complete several lingering chores. First
among them is to integrate all of the reunion information
within the individual unit areas of Looking For.
Inclusion of photographs for casualties and for units is
another task that has been sidetracked. The number of photos
we now have is tremendous, a full time job.
Many Recollection stories will be merged with the current
versions.
Removal of duplicate guestbook and unit entries will be an
ongoing process. Updating email addresses site-wide is part
of that chore. You can help by alerting us to changes you
see on the site.
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10. Williams Run - Thanks to all - postscript
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Thank you to all of our supporters for the help from October.
to the present. The email, calls and letters to Texas
officials made a big difference.
The situation was settled by the court in our favor. Other
actions by regulatory agencies are pending.
The Korean War Project is back to doing good stuff full time.
Regards,
Hal and Ted Barker
hbarker@kwp.org
tbarker@kwp.org
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