Korean War Project

Note: Original postings on the Korean War Project from 1995 to about 1999.

Finding pals

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 
weldon causseaux Email address wrote:

712 Big Canoe
Big Canoe, GA 30143-5114

phone: 706-579-1468
fax: 706-579-1469

datein: 7-12-48  dateout: 6-25-52

comments:
Looking for information about the ship during the Korean War.  Would 
like to correspond with anyone who was on the ship, especially during 
the year I was there. I was the ship's yeoman during most of the time. 

A friend was killed in action on the ship, and I am trying to remember 
his name.  I will respond to any letters.

I went aboard the USS Glouster PF 22, about June or July 1951. I left 
the ship around June 1st, 1952. I was the ship's yeoman shortly after
arriving on board. Our ship worked out of Sasebo(sp?) Japan.

Our main task was escorting larger ships, tankers and others into the 
zone where the war was waged. Aslo a major task was seeking to spot
"homemade mines" placed in our path by the North Koreans.Sometimes we
were fired upon from the shore of North Korea.It was on such an occasion
that we were hit by several shots, with five or six men being wounded 
and a young man, soon to go home, was killed. This was on or about 14
November 1951.

He was of Mexican orgin, from New Mexico. I have searched my records,
which are few, and can not find his name. I have no great burden to find
it, but he deserved to be remembered. He was very well liked by the 
crew.