The Graybeards - KWVA - Korean War Veterans Association

50th Anniversary of the Korean War
Commemorative License Plate
License Plate is in beautiful metallic blue on a white background
$11.95 includes S & H, allow 3 weeks for Delivery.
Send To:
K. V. Quartermaster,
1611 North Michigan Ave.,
Danville, IL 61834-6239.
THE HILLS AROUND US:
KOREA: 1950-1951
A noncombatant airman’s account of his experiences during
the Korean War.
In early July 1950, I was an 18-year old sergeant, assigned to an
Air Force volunteer provisional unit sent to Japan from the
Philippines. On September 15, we made an LST beach landing, on
the opposite coast from the Marine landing at Inchon. There was
one BIG difference - ours was an unopposed landing. We were
attached to the 18th Fighter-Bomber Group, a propeller-driven F-
51 unit made up of squadrons from the United States, Australia,
South Africa and the Republic of South Korea. The Dog Patch Air
Force.
This Memoir is a collection of remembrances of people I met and
events I observed, as I made my way up and down that mountainous
peninsula on one detached-duty assignment or another, which
included service with the No. 2 South Africa Squadron at the
Sinanju airstrip in North Korea.
I’d guess that many of you might have served with an Air Force
unit in that war, as a combat pilot or as a noncombatant soldier-airman
like myself. If you yourself weren’t there, but had a relative or
close friend who was, it might not be all that difficult to imagine
that much of what is described in this book could have been experienced
and written by that person.
Although turned down by several publishers, I’ve proceeded to
“package” the Memoir myself. Price is $12 plus $3.75 S & H.
(Costs $8.00 to produce each book). 84 pages in spiral bound format.
Font is easy-to-read 12-point Brougham. Cover & back are
pebble-textured heavy vinyl. You may read excerpts on the
Internet, at the Ink Peoples’ Arts Online Website: www.inkpeople.org.
Click on ROBERT McCUNE’S KOREAN WAR BOOK
webpage. Send checks to: P.O. Box 569, Trinidad, CA 95570.
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