The Graybeards Nov/Dec 2005 - Korean War Veterans Association
The Graybeards Nov/Dec 2005 - Korean War Veterans Association
The Graybeards Nov/Dec 2005 - Korean War Veterans Association
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<strong>Korean</strong> laborers given a ride to work at Suwon<br />
<strong>The</strong> Suwon base gets a ground attack alert. All the <strong>Korean</strong>s on the base<br />
were rounded up, accounted for, and rushed off the base. <strong>The</strong>n, the men in<br />
the different squadrons took their assigned positions to defend the base.<br />
This photo was taken facing the flight line. You see a 40mm anti-aircraft gun<br />
(or cannon). <strong>The</strong>re was a creek between the bus and the gun. Later on, the<br />
one 40mm. was replaced by a twin 40mm. mounted on a tank. <strong>The</strong> out house<br />
is on the right of the photo. (circa May 1952<br />
I was walking along the side of the motor pool when I took this photo from<br />
the street as I was on my way to the mess hall<br />
This is a Triple A (AAA) Army Anti-aircraft unit that was stationed on the base.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y had just returned from the firing range, where they would go to sight the<br />
50 cal. anti-air guns. <strong>The</strong> guns were radar controlled. <strong>The</strong>y would follow our<br />
planes as they flew around the base. If any planes were North <strong>Korean</strong> planes,<br />
they would have been shot down.<br />
Airman Brown and all his girl friends. He would say “Good night” to his<br />
hometown girl friend and a couple of the others every night before lights out.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Post Exchange on the base<br />
<strong>The</strong> base theater in about June 1952.
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