The Graybeards - KWVA - Korean War Veterans Association

from men who had served with Jimmie. I
also received a photo of Jimmie Jumbo and
his friend Carson. R. Gentry, who was in his
unit and who became a POW of the
Chinese.
E-mailing exchanges with Marty were
golden, and we two thought this to be a
heck of a story. Wonderful that Gentry and
a fellow named Rapp still have such fond
memories of this Navajo pal 55 1/2 years
later.
Bruce L Salisbury, Msgt
USAF (Ret.),
Aztec, NM, (505) 334-2398
A Misplaced Pound Sign
I live in Remlap, Alabama (approximately
25 miles north of Birmingham) with my
wife Cathey and our three sons, Caleb,
Benjamin, and Luke. My dad, Travis C.
Glasscox Jr., served in the Korean War
under Lt. Daniel Webster Dotson of Pound,
Virginia. In the January – February 2003
edition of The Graybeards it is stated that Lt.
Dotson is from Powrd, VA (should read
Pound, VA).
My dad, family, and I visited Pound,
Virginia on May 26th, 2006.
Caleb (13) and Benjamin (9) Glasscox with Travis Willcox II
My dad had no further contact with Lt.
Dotson after leaving Korea in 1951. After
learning that Lt. Dotson had been killed in
an automobile accident in Pound not long
after returning from Korea, my dad wanted
to visit the area to pay his last respects. We
visited the Wise County courthouse where
the plaque honoring Lt. Dotson’s service in
WWII and Korea is located. Additionally,
we were able to visit Lt. Dotson’s gravesite.
Travis Willcox III and his son, who is holding his son Luke (3)
ABOVE: Travis Willcox II and his
three grandsons at Lt. Dotson’s
grave.
BELOW: A roadside plaque
erected in Pound, VA, honoring
Lt. Dotson
Lt. Dotson is buried in a family cemetery
that is very difficult to locate. With the gracious
help of the local funeral home director,
Mr. Jerry Baker, we were able to visit
Lt. Dotson’s grave.
Travis C. Glasscox III
1441 Valley Grove Road,
Remlap, Al 35133
(205) 681-4369
You Take The .30 Cal
Out, You Put The
Flamethrower In…
I was with the 7th Inf. Div.,
31st Regt., 31st Tank Co. I have
tried for years to get a history of
the 7th and 31st Regt. (Anyone
know if there is one available?)
Between 3/12/1952 and
2/5/53, in the Triangle Sector,
Billy R. Cooper had Tank 2 and
I had Tank 1. Billy and I had the
only two tanks up on Sniper’s
Ridge. On the side of Tank 1 was
painted the words “Sweet
Kansas Baby.” Just a few inches below the
driver’s hatch were marks where it got hit
by an enemy gun.
At one point we had a flamethrower
which we could shift in and out. We could
take out the .30 cal machine gun and replace
it with the flamethrower and vice versa. I
once showed Gen S. D. White how to work
it.
When we got back to the states in
October 1953, we had a lay-over in
Oakland, CA. So, we took in a movie. It
was accompanied by a newsreel in which
our tanks appeared.
Ronald E. Davis,
P.O. Box 4052
Sun Valley, AZ 86029-4052
A Humanitarian Gesture
I was inducted in November 19, 1951 in
the US Army, and stationed at the following
places: Camp Kilmer, NJ; Fort Dix, NJ;
Korea; Inchon; Seoul; Pusan; Kunsan, and
other places which, even then, I would not
have been able to identify.
I was the Company Clerk of Company
B, 453rd Engineering Construction
Battalion. I was in charge of all the paperwork
and record- keeping for all 4 platoons
assigned throughout Korea. I served in
Korea from November 1952 through
October 1953.
My most memorable and satisfying
experience was finding a small naked
Korean boy, named Kim, crawling under
our compound fence, going through the
garbage cans for food. I took him under my
care, fed him, had clothing made for him
from a pair of my fatigues, and got him
medical care for an infection on his ear.
He could not speak a word of English,
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The Graybeards September – October 2006