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Bios for Tiger Flight
Please publish this alert to all Korean War veterans who were
Air Policemen. Tiger Flight, the official journal of the Air Forces
Security Forces Association, is seeking bios/photos for the Air
Force Security Police Volume lll History Book. Deadline is May
15, 2009.
If you do not wish to write your own bio, an M.T Publishing
Company editor will be glad to compose your biography for you.
A form can be obtained from the website of MT Publishing
Company at www.mtpublishing.com.
Any questions? Contact the AF Security Forces Association,
818 Willow Creek Circle, San Marcos, TX, 78666-5060, (888)
250-9876
Looking for relatives of “Al” and “Harry”
We are looking for the families of two soldiers killed in the
early phase of the Korean War in the Chosen Area. We hope to
locate a sister, brother, aunt, uncle, nephew or niece of the two
soldiers.
I am writing this request on behalf of Eddie Ko, who was with
both soldiers when they died from their wounds. He is like most
of us who fought. We are getting older and would like to find any
relatives of these two soldiers he so valiantly tried to save.
This South Korean was recruited by the South Korean government
with other young people to serve as spies for the
American forces fighting the North Koreans. They were schoolboys
whose job was to collect data and interpret what prisoners
said when interpreted by our American military.
Eddie remembered only their first names: “Al” and “Harry.”
Without much to go on, I “Googled” a website under the heading
of Korean War soldiers KIA, MIA, or POW. I requested the
names of soldiers from New York; only two fit the names I was
looking for. Both were from New York City.
Both soldiers were posthumously promoted to rank of CPL.
Their names are Alfred Patrick Perry, 31st Inf. Regt,, Company
M, and Harold Levy, 57th Field Artillery Battalion, Med. Det.,
7th Infantry Div.
As I said, Eddie only knew them by their nicknames, and he
hopes the U.S government can recover their remains for positive
identification.
Eddie left the two soldiers in a vegetable pit where Korean
farmers stored their food from spoiling. It was a farmhouse with
railroad tracks running beside it. The name of the village was
Pyong Kang—as near as I can make out when I ask him to spell
the village name.
While they were holed up there Eddie tried to retrieve some
K-rations from a freight car parked near the farmhouse. He managed
to get a few cases of rations. But, while sneaking away from
the train, he was spotted and shot in the heel. The round knocked
him down. Fortunately, whoever shot him figured he was dead,
since he didn’t move.
Eddie was unconscious for a short time before crawling away
and getting back to where the two soldiers were waiting for him.
He climbed into the hole only to find his friends had died of their
wounds. He left them in the hole and figured someone would
bury them nearby when they found the dead bodies.
Eddie believes he can recognize the two soldiers from pictures
taken of them before they left home to go to their next assignment.
If possible, he would like pictures of both soldiers sent to
him or to me so that I could give them to Eddie. If we were able
to identify both soldiers, the families will have final closure.
When the war was over, Eddie came to America with the help
of three soldiers, finished his education, joined the army, and
served in Korea for two years. After his discharge he married and
had two sons, who he named after the two soldiers. One son
became a lawyer, the other a plastic surgeon.
Eddie and his wife have lived the American dream, becoming
successful in their business ventures. Eddie also feels the families
would be glad to know there fallen soldiers have been
remembered in this special way.
Anyone who can help is invited to contact me.
Cornelius “Neil” Quilligan, B Co., 279th Regt.,
45th Inf. Div., 10401 Mulligan Ct., Tampa, Fl. 33647,
(813) 973 3036
“Jonesy”
I would like to
contact my motor
pool buddy,
“Jonesy,” or any
buddy who served
with me in the U.S.
Army 618th Medical
Clearing Co, 2nd
Platoon, Korea,
1953.
The second platoon,
at that time,
was stationed near
Yonchon, Korea, north of the 38th.
“Jonesy” and his deuce-and-a-half (right) and
Wayne Doenges in Korea
Pictured is “Jonesy” with his deuce and a half; I’m in the other
picture.
Contact me at Wayne A. Doenges, 932 W. Circle Dr.,
New Haven, IN 46774, goldnrocket@verizon.net
Freedom Team Salute
I am Michael Dorsey with Freedom Team Salute, a Dept. of
the Army Recognition program designed to honor all veterans
regardless of when, where or who a veteran served with. The
challenge in recognizing 14,000,000 Army vets is finding them.
Although I know many vets are homeless and/or don’t belong
to veteran service organizations, the KWVA is a large VSO with
a considerable number of its members who are Army vets.
March – April 2009
The Graybeards