The Complete Issue - Korean War Veterans Association

Off duty crew: (Back) Carlsen, replacement,
Sgt Benny Goodman, (Front)
Grissom, Buckley, Sorenstein (photo
taken in .50 MG pit)
There were 13 of us on top of Hill
108, in addition to a “Tipsy dog” counter
mortar radar crew. Our group was DS
to a National Guard AAA Hqs Btry,
369th, I believe. We were “outside the
wire” and operated, with the radar crew,
our own security.
Compared with the guys on the line,
we had it very easy. We were shot at, but
almost all of the time it was friendly fire
from AW batteries in the
valley. During air raids by
“Bed Check Charlie” we
would get the fallout from
the 40’s and 50’s. No matter
who is pulling the trigger,
it is still sobering.
After the Cease Fire, the
government realized that they
had no baseline info on the
weather in mainland Asia, so
we doubled our output and did
messages every three hours for
three months and sent them all
back to Washington for their
evaluation. This would help in
the weather forecasting for the
next few decades or longer. As
each message took about two
hours, this left no time to sleep,
so we were literally 24 on and
24 off.
All of this was why I never got to see
much of Korea. I didn’t even know
where Sosa was until I took the revisit
trip with my grandson back in 2003.
There is a statue on top of Hill 108 now.
I think it was honoring the Met Section,
but I couldn’t really read the inscription.
Stanley Jones, 25 Huckins Neck Road,
Centerville, MA 02632-1826,
Stanley.Jones1@comcast.net
Jones (when I was much thinner) in front of GMD radio direction
finder, one of two the Army had in Korea.
Buckley, going native, trying to supplement his “C-rats”
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The Graybeards September-October 2007