The Battle for Pusan - A Memoir

Informationen zum Autor Addison Terry left the army in 1955, having attained the rank of major. He is a 1948 graduate of Purdue and holds a Master of Economics from the University of Florida. He has operated his own mortgage and real estate business since 1955 and is an adjunct professor at Sul Ross Texas University. Professor Terry and his wife, Rebekah, live in Richmond, Texas. Their three adult sons live in Dallas. Klappentext "A great read [that] has frozen the events in print that molded great men who stood alone on the mainland of Asia against the first Asian Communist Army to engage the West.” -From the Foreword by Brig. Gen. Robert L. Scott! Jr.! USAF (Ret.)! author of God Is My Co-Pilot The rapid-fire success of the North Korean Army's (NKA) invasion of South Korea! launched on June 25! 1950! and supported by Russia's vaunted T-34 tanks! stunned the world. By August 1! the entire South had fallen! save for the port city of Pusan. As the enemy prepared to deliver the coup de grâce! only one obstacle remained: Lt. Addison Terry's unit! the famous Wolfhounds of the 27th Regimental Combat Team. Used as a "fire brigade” to shore up imperiled American defenses! these intrepid soldiers were in the thick of it! stopping the NKA's threat of a breakthrough at every turn. Against all odds! the Wolfhounds stood firm! racking up two Presidential Unit Citations within weeks. Terry's account! written while recovering from injuries he suffered during the battle! captures the war in all its grit! sacrifice! and courage. "A fascinating first-person account of the early days of the Korean War.” -themilitarybookreview.com Briefing On 25 June 1950, I was a second lieutenant, Field artillery, posted to B Battery of the 49th Field Artillery Battalion, 7th Division, Eighth Army. The station was Jinmachi, northern Honshu. This was at the time of the U.S. occupation of Japan and its "reconstruction." The post was quite remote, situated in the mountains about twenty miles northwest of Yamagata. It had been an Imperial Japanese Cavalry post. I had arrived in January, fresh from the campus of the University of Florida, where I had earned a master's in economics. The source of my commission was the ROTC at Purdue. I had experienced not a single day of active duty or training since the ROTC days at Purdue in 1948. The 49th Field Artillery was my First posting. I had been shipped directly to Japan upon being sworn in as a regular army officer, an appointment offered on the basis of a graduate degree. To assume that I was green, and at the bottom of the competency ladder, would be accurate. Nevertheless, I attacked the military career with vigor and managed to overcome my lack of competence with enthusiasm and a great deal of instruction from the seasoned officers in the outfit. Of particular help was Lt. Bill Plummer. He was a senior First lieutenant and had served in the ETO (European theater of operations) in World War II. The First section of this chapter was written in 1999, after the manuscript was lost for forty-seven years. It is not my purpose to relate the details of the First six months of duty. However, it is important to identify Plummer, Nurse "X," and "Jeb Stuart" as they play an important part in the saga that follows. Plummer was from St. Louis. He had played catcher on a St. Louis Cardinals farm baseball team and had aspirations of being a major league regular. These plans were changed on 7 December 1941. For some reason, we called each other "Hood" (like gangster hoods. Don't remember how this got started). He was a great teacher. Nurse "X" was a large woman who made up one-half of the medical team at the post. I am embarrassed that I cannot recall her name. The other half of the medical team was Nurse "Y" who was a tall, lean woman. Both nurses were in their middle thirties and had been in the army since the early forties. The nurses were offic...

Product details

• Authors: Addison Terry
• Publisher: Presidio Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.04.2006
• EAN: 9780345472625
• ISBN: 978-0-345-47262-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 109 mm x 175 mm x 20 mm
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics