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Spare Not the Brave - The Special Activities Group in Korea (Hardcover)
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Spare Not the Brave - The Special Activities Group in Korea (Hardcover)
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The Special Activities Group (SAG) and its subordinate companies
have received little attention from historians, despite being an
elite combat unit and participating in highly classified and
dangerous missions in Korea. Rarely receiving more attention than a
footnote, their story usually begins and ends on the night of
September 12, 1950, with an amphibious raid near Kunsan. Until
their inactivation on March 31, 1951, SAG simply disappears from
most Korean War histories. Spare Not the Brave corrects this
omission. Spare Not the Brave tells the story of the extraordinary
missions carried out by this group of extraordinary soldiers.
Recruited primarily from the Far East Command headquarters, these
men received six weeks of training and then were thrust into combat
in Korea. Boarding rubber boats in the Yellow Sea and paddling to
shore far behind enemy lines, they conducted a diversionary landing
near Kunsan, then landed at Inchon, and sailed to the Wonsan area
of North Korea. There, SAG was augmented with a battalion of South
Korean soldiers. Together they conducted counter-guerrilla
operations until overwhelming Chinese intervention forced all
Allied units to withdraw from the North. Those critical missions
continued into the difficult fighting of early 1951. Much of this
volume is based upon the words of the participants themselves.
Using previously obscure primary sources, oral histories, and
official records, author Richard L. Kiper tells this unit's
riveting tale. Wherever possible, first-person accounts have been
verified and supplemented with official reports, maps, and
documents. Drawing on his twenty-six years of infantry and special
forces experience, Kiper brings critical analysis and insight to
this previously untold story. Spare Not the Brave fills a gap in
the historiography of the Korean War and adds a valuable chapter to
the history of U.S. Army special operations.
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