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Combat Actions in Korea (Paperback)
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Combat Actions in Korea (Paperback)
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This book is a collection of accounts describing the combat action
of small Army units-squads and platoons, companies and batteries.
These are the units that engage in combat, suffer the casualties,
and make up the fighting strength of the battalions, regiments,
divisions, corps, and finally, of the field army. Combat is a very
personal business to members of such a small unit. Concerned with
the fearful and consuming tasks of fighting and living, these men
cannot think of war in terms of the Big Picture as it is
represented on the situation maps at corps or army headquarters.
Members of a squad or platoon know only what they can see and hear
of combat. They know and understand the earth for which they fight,
the advantage of holding the high ground, the protection of the
trench or hole. These men can distinguish the sounds of enemy
weapons from those of their own; they know the satisfying sound of
friendly artillery shells passing overhead and of friendly planes
diving at an objective. They know the excitement of combat, the
feeling of exhilaration and of despair, the feeling of massed
power, and of overwhelming loneliness. The author has tried to
describe combat as individuals have experienced it, or at least as
it has appeared from the company command post. In so doing, much
detail has been included that does not find its way into more
barren official records. The details and the little incidents of
combat were furnished by surviving members of the squads and
companies during painstaking interviews and discussions soon after
the fighting was over. Conversely, many facts have been omitted
from the narrative presented here. The accounts tell only part of
the complete story, intentionally ignoring related actions of cause
and effect in order to keep one or two small units in sharper
focus. The story of action on Heartbreak Ridge, for example,
describes fighting that lasted only one or two hours, whereas the
entire battle for that hill went on for several weeks. Sometimes
there are obvious gaps because important information was lost with
the men who died in the battle. Sometimes the accounts are
incomplete because the author failed to learn or to recount
everything of importance that happened.
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