Newsletter - June 6 2002

Korean War Project
P.O. Box 180190
Dallas, TX 75218-0190
214-320-0342

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2. Membership and Pledge Drive
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We invite you to join up or renew as members, see below.
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/membership.html

For over 7 years the KWP has been providing links for
veterans and family members to network or to find
information. This service is free for all to use, part
of our commitment to our veterans, many of whom are on
fixed income or retired.

These messages may get boring to read month in and out, but
they help us to attract those who are new to the site as
well as those who may not have participated in the past.

Join in, if you can.

Here is more info on current Member/Sponsors.

Member Search: https://www.koreanwar.org

Members: https://www.koreanwar.org

Sponsors:

Thanks to all who have helped out!!

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3. Korean Service Awards
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The newsletter featured information on two awards in past
issues. The US Korean War Service Medal and the Republic
of Korea Service Medal are the two and have different
time criteria as well as methods to get them.

A) The Republic of Korea Service Medal - June 25th 1950 thru
July 27th 1953.

Can be obtained by direct contact with ROK KVA (Korea
Veterans Assoc) and contacts in your local Korean community.

It can also be obtained by contacting the USAF at the page
link here:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/korean_war_service_medal.html

B) US Korean War Service Medal - July 25th 2002 thru July
27th 1954.

From many calls and email regarding obtaining lost or never
delivered awards and medals, Hal and I have found that
direct contact with your elected officials is often the best
route.

Providing key documents; discharge papers, (DD 214), action
reports, eye-witness accounts, medical records, Form 1300 or
Form 293, etc play a significant role in speeding the
process.

Official web links at NPRC:

https://www.nara.gov/regional/stlouis.html

(There is a story on the 1973 fire)

VA Forms: https://www.vba.va.gov/pubs/forms1.htm

Navy: www.history.navy.mil/medals/kormedal/korea-f.htm

Cold War Recognition Certificates: https://coldwar.army.mil

KOREAN WAR MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS

https://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/mohkor2.htm

Purple Heart Association https://www.purpleheart.org/

Unofficial Web Links https:// www.usmedals.com

The following are examples of awards/medals for KWVETS
depending upon circumstances.

ARMY OF OCCUPATION MEDAL (JAPAN)
UNITED NATIONS SERVICE MEDAL
KOREAN SERVICE MEDAL
NATIONAL DEFENSE SERVICE MEDAL
REPUBLIC OF KOREA PRESIDENTIAL UNIT CITATION
PRESIDENTIAL UNIT CITATION
MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART
COMBAT INFANTRY BADGE

Army Documents:

Center of Military History, United States Army, Washington,
D.C., "Army Lineage Series, armies, Corps, Divisions and
Separate Brigades," compiled by John B. Wilson, 1987

Sent in by Marty O'Brien, Bangor, ME

For DMZ Era Vets, see: KDVA https://kdvamerica.org/

We shall try to address UN Forces other than USA in next
issue.

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4. Korean War Remembrance
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A)Branson, MO

6/25-----Beginning of Korean War
A special ceremony to recognize and honor those who
Served in the Forgotten War www.bransonveterans.com

7/27-----Korean War Armistice Day
Ceremony marks the end of the war


B) Davison VFW Veteran Awareness Days VFW Post 4087

A short note to say that here in Davison, Michigan we also
have a Veteran's Awareness day. We started two years ago at
the VFW Post 4087.

Since that half day gathering we had such a response that we
had done 4 more and are doing another one next Thursday. It
was so well received in the high school that it is now part
of the curriculum for junior or senior history.

I have some 100 plus pages of letters of thanks from the
students. I personally flew 55 combat missions during 1951,
so I have a map of Korea and with the use of a pointer to
tell the story of 38 months of combat. The start at the
38th and ending at the 38th. 37,000 plus dead Americans,
another 10,000 MIA. It is a first time awareness of
Memorial Day for many of the kids.

I hope you find that the vast number of students are truly
interested in talking with Veterans.

Jim Greiner jgreiner@tir.com

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5. Books | Film | Web Links
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A)"No Gun Ri: A Military History of the Korean War Incident"

by Robert Bateman

It is available in bookstores and may be ordered through
Amazon.com. Book price is $22.95 plus S&H.

It refutes the AP articles by Charles Hanley and others
about the claims made by Ed Daily regarding the "massacre"
at No Gun Ri during the period of 26 to 29 July 1950.

It is extremely well researched, written by an historian in
a simple, logical order, and thoroughly dashes the wild
claims made by the AP.

Every 7th Cavalry trooper will want to read the book, even
if he were not a member during the early days of the Korean
War. It tells the truth about that incident.

John O Potts
5578 Greyston St
Palm Harbor, FL 34685
Co F, H 7th Cav 1949-1951
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B) Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War

By: Lewis H. Carlson

Greetings, Barker's: I just finished reading Lewis H.
Carlson' Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War. St.
Martins: 2002.

If you haven't seen it, it is a must read! Highly
recommended.

Dave McLaren <Flywriting@aol.com>

(Dave is an established author on US Air Force, featured
in our Bookstore)
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C) MASH Web Pages:

https://www.armymedicine.army.mil/history/booksdocs/korea/KWUu
nithistories/8076thMASH.htm

https://www.armymedicine.army.mil/history/booksdocs/korea/KWUu
nithistories/8076thMASH1950.htm

Sent in by Charles E. MacKay
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D) Military Lifestyles Camp Lejeune article

https://militarylifestyle.com

Sent by Ed Downey edowney@empowerdata.com

It occurred to me that you may want to provide a link for
your readers to go to militarylifestyle.com to access our
features on the Korean War. Currently there are the two
photo essays. They will be followed by the interviews we
did at the Camp LeJuene 50th Korean War anniversary
commemoration.


E) Korean War Documents and articles

https://www.kimsoft.com/2002/oro-kw.htm

https://www.kimsoft.com/2002/kw-millett.pdf

Sent in by Mike Yared"
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6. Computer Virus Alert
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For the past several months, commencing in March 2002, a
devilish virus/worm of the W32.Klez family have been making
the rounds.

The virus/worm is similar to many previous virii, attacking
an email address book to randomly generate email creating
bogus FROM senders.

At the KWP, we average getting about 100 virii alerts per
day, which our mail server blocks, as do our email clients.

See Norton, McAffee web sites for directions on stopping
this virus.

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6. Combat Infantry Badge 8240th Army Unit
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I am Col. Doug Dillard USA(r) a former memnber of the 8240th
Army Unit that conducted behind the lines combat using the
Korean and Chinese Volunteers as partisans and intelligence
collection agents during the war.

I have just received a letter from the Military Awards
Branch, Dept. of Army that establishes a policy of
reviewing individual applications from veterans who fought
in ground combat with the partisans for the award of the
COMBAT INFANTRY BADGE.

In the past many veterans were rejected by the awards branch
because the 8240th Army Unit was not considered as engaging
in ground combat against ground enemy forces.

This new policy open up the award to many of these veterans
who as a result of subsequent combat duty in Vietnam would
be entitled to two perhaps three awards of the CIB for
many of them who also served in WWII.

Any 8240th veteran who would like more information on this
should contact:

Col. Doug Dillard at DDILLARDD@AOL.COM

FX 301-262-9863 or Pho. 301-262-2439

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Thanks for helping make the Korean War Project a success

Hal and Ted Barker

Korean War Project

 

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