The 1st Cavalry Division and their 8th Engineers in Korea : America's silent generation at war

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Dedication = ⅲ
• Contents = ⅴ
• Acknowledgements = xiii
• Abbreviations = xviii
• Order of Battle = xix
• Commanding Generals of the 1st Cavalry Division in Korea = xx
• Preface = xxi
• Editor's notes = xxii
• CAMPAIGN Ⅰ : UNITED NATIONS DEFENSIVE(27 June-15 Sept. 1950) = 1
• Chapter 1. THE TROOPERS = 1
• The Cavalry / by T. F. Brouse = 1
• The Silent Generation = 1
• Theory of generational cycles = 1
• America's Silent Generation at war = 2
• Commissioned officers = 4
• The United Nations' forces = 5
• U.S. battle deaths = 5
• The horseless cavalry = 6
• The Horseless Cavalry March / by T. F. Brouse = 7
• The engineers = 7
• SFC Jim Apple re. the 8th Engineer Combat Battalion = 8
• The 8th Engineers were ready / by Col. Marvin C. Ellison = 8
• The Troopers = 9
• PFG Charles Rome Leasure, Company "D" = 10
• Cpl. Harold Foster, Company "C" = 10
• Lt. George W. Skanse, Company "C" = 10
• SFC Marvin Halladay, Company "C" = 11
• PFC Richard M. Gile, Company "B" = 11
• PFC Joseph E. Amos, Company "C" = 11
• Cpl. Allan Ryan, Company "D" = 12
• Our replacements = 12
• The Communist forces = 12
• Chapter 2. JUNE, JULY, AND AUGUST-1950 = 14
• Lt. Ronald Severson re. officer transfers = 14
• Cpl. Adelord L. Taylor, road grader operator = 15
• Company "C" lands in Korea = 15
• Lt. Merlin W. Anderson re. Amphibious landing = 15
• W.O. Aines re. the amphibious landing = 16
• First Contact with the NK = 17
• PFC Charles Rome Leasure, Company "D" = 17
• The Battel of Chirye
• Daisy chains, courage, judgment, and leadership = 18
• SFC Frank Sarnowski re. anti-tank weapons = 18
• A Related incident of extraordinary heroism = 20
• Andrew L. Penn, Wounded in action = 21
• Yongdong and Chirye = 22
• PFC Joseph E. Amos, Company "C" re. ammunition dump = 22
• Leonard by T.F. Brouse = 23
• Lt. Ronald Severson, Company "B" re. Thompson's death = 23
• New officers and reinforcements = 24
• Lt. Frank Armstrong re. returning men to their units = 24
• Lt. Merlin W. Anderson, CO of H / S Company re. the raid = 26
• PFG Charles Rome Leasure, Company "D" re. the raid = 27
• PFG Joseph Amos, Company "C" re. the raid = 27
• Lt. Frank Armstrong, Reconnaissance Officer = 28
• Lt. Ronald Severson, Company "B" re. withdrawal = 29
• Murphy's Piece / by T.F. Brouse = 30
• Rescuing the ammunition train = 31
• Underage Soldiers = 31
• The Waegwan Bridges Crossing the Naktong River = 32
• Lt. Jack Haygood, Company "A" re. bridge Destruction = 32
• Underwater or Sandbag Bridges = 32
• Korean Augmentation to the United States Army = 33
• The first battlefield commission of the war = 34
• SFC Marvin Halladay, Company "C", meets General Gay = 35
• Major General Hobart Gay = 35
• Lt. Frank Armstrong, locating Naktong River fords = 35
• Lt. Ed. West, fording the Naktong River = 35
• Cpl. Adelord L. Taylor, H / S Company re. Air Force = 36
• Lt. Frank Armstrong, Recon, Officer re. left flank = 36
• Sgt. Richard P. Holman, Jr., Company "C" re. a spy = 37
• SFC Frank Sarnowski, Company "C" re. one KATUSA = 38
• Chapter 3. BATTLE OF THE WALLED CITY OF KASAN = 39
• Task Force Allen = 39
• SFC Frank Sarnowski, Company "C" re. "Pug" Day = 39
• PFC Joseph E. Amos, C Company, Hill 516 = 40
• Award of the Silver Star to SFC Sarnowski = 40
• Sgt. Richard P. Holman, Company "C" re. 3 September = 40
• SFC Emory B. Deel, Company "C" re. 3 September = 41
• Recently from West Point = 41
• Lt. Jack Haygood, Company "A" re. Lt. West = 41
• Lt. Ed West, Company "A" New platoon leader = 41
• Lt. Jack Haygood, C.O. Company "A" re. 4 and 5 Sept = 42
• The Battle of the Walled City of Kasan = 43
• The Battle in hours = 45
• PFC Richard J. Benedict, "E" Company, 8th Cavalry Regiment = 50
• PFC Joe E. Ramirez, Company E, 8th Cavalry Regiment = 51
• Cpl. Thomas F. Brouse, Company "E", 8th Cavalry Regiment = 51
• Barber and Yost by T.F. Brouse = 52
• Cpl. Thomas F. Brouse of Company "E" = 52
• First Lieutenanl Watt by T.F. Brouse = 54
• Corporal Thomas F. Brouse, Company "E" = 54
• Cpl. Walter E. Forsha, Jr., I&R Platoon, 8th Cav. Regt = 55
• PFC Joe Christopher, Troop "F", 8th Cav. Regiment = 55
• Cpl. Frederick L. Harter, Troop "F", 8th Cavalry Regiment = 55
• LT. William A. McClain, Commanding Company "E" = 55
• PFC Richard Benedict, Company "E", 8th Cavalry Regiment = 58
• PFC Charles Rome Leasure, Company "D" = 60
• Lt. Frank Armstrong, Reconnaissance Officer and Kasan = 61
• Korean Battle Scenes Enginners Fight as Infantry = 62
• The experience of Lt. Tom Jones = 64
• Lt. Thomas T. Jones, Company "D" re. Kasan = 64
• "D" Company KIA and MIA who never returned = 65
• ZAMA by T. F. Brouse = 66
• Lt. Frank Armstrong, new company commader = 66
• Decking a railroad bridge for vehicular traffic = 67
• The minefields at Sin-dong = 67
• Lt. Frank Armstrong re. Colonel Crombez = 69
• Corporal Cordon M. Craig, M.H. = 69
• Lt. Frank Armstrong, Company "D", Suicide mission scratched = 69
• Lt. Ed West, Company "A", The dummy minefield = 70
• Lt. Frank Armstrong, Company "D", re. company briefings = 71
• Capt. William McClain, Troop "E", 8th Cavalry Regiment = 71
• Presidential Unit Citation = 73
• CAMPAIGN Ⅱ : UNITED NATIONS' OFFENSIVE(16Sept.-2 Nov. 1950)
• Chapter 4 : BREAKING OUT FROM THE PUSAN PERIMETER = 74
• Order of Battle at the breakout = 74
• Lt. Frank Armstrong, C.O. Company "D" The Waegwan Road = 75
• Rebuilding the Waegwan Bridges = 76
• Lt. Ed West, Company A : Meeting the Commanding General = 76
• Capt. Merlin C. Anderson, Company "B" : re. Tash Force Lynch = 78
• PFC Richard M. Gile, Company "B", re. a Booby-trapped Mine = 79
• Lt. George W. Skanse rejoins Company "C" = 80
• SFC Frank Sarnowski re. defense of the airport = 81
• U.S. X Corps returns to sea = 81
• Private First Class Robert H. Young, M.H. = 82
• The flanking movement which enabled the capture of Pyongyang = 82
• Capt. Merlin Aderson re. the Yesong River Bridge = 82
• Lt. Donald S. Aines, Company "B" = 84
• Lt. Ronald E. Severson, Company "B" = 84
• Lt. John R. Singleton, Company "C" re. Pvt Hardin = 85
• First Lieutenant Samuel S. Coursen, M.H. = 86
• The urgency for the U.S. X Corps' mission nullified = 87
• Lt. Donald S. Aines, Company "B" = 87
• A firefight between friendly forces = 87
• Lt. Ed West, Company "A" re. The Taedong River = 88
• Capt. Jack L. Haygood, C.O. Company "A" re. Lt. Blakelock = 89
• Lt. John R. Singleton, re. Lieutenant Blakelock = 89
• Lt. John R. Singleton, Company "G" re. Bob Hope = 91
• Cpl. Adelord L. Taylor re. Bob Hope = 91
• Lt. Frank H. Armstrong, re. the advance party = 92
• PFC Richard M. Gile, Company "B" re. Sgt Pratt = 94
• Sgt. Emory B. Deel, Company "C" re. Unsan = 94
• SFC Frank A. Sarnowski, Company "C" re. Unsan = 95
• PFC Joseph Amos, Company "C" re. the Battle of Unsan = 98
• Lt. George W. Skanse, Company "C" re. Unsan = 100
• Cpl. Harold Foster, Company "C" re. Unsan = 101
• Capt. William (Moose) McClain, Company "E", 8th Cav = 101
• A Chaplain's Diary = 103
• George L. Walker, 8th Cavalry Regiment = 103
• CAMPAIGN Ⅲ. CCF INTERVENTION(3 Nov. 1950-24 Jan. 1951)
• Chapter 5. THE CHINESE AFTER UNSAN = 104
• PFC Richard M. Gile, Company "B" re. Cpl. Murphy = 106
• The 2nd Infantry Division's Gauntlet = 108
• Chapter 6. TACTICAL AIR SUPPORT = 110
• CCF horse cavalry couldn't cope with modern warfare = 112
• The Turkish Brigade's lost motor convoy = 112
• Our flight featured in Stars and Stripes = 113
• A setback for the CCF and engineering work continues = 113
• Three million North Korean Civilians move south = 114
• Chapter 7. DECEMBER 1950 = 116
• Lt. Don Aines, Company "A" re. the bridge incident = 117
• Lt. Ed. West, Company "A" re. the overcoat = 117
• The most Christian Nation in the World in 1995 = 119
• The hot part of the Cold War = 119
• Helping two refugees = 120
• Johnie Walker by T. F. Brouse = 122
• Two missing men = 123
• Order of Battle = 124
• The Medal of Honor Citation = 126
• Snow depth and enemy condition = 126
• Reconnaissance in force = 128
• CAMPAIGN Ⅳ : UNITED NATIONS' COUNTEROFFENSIVE(25 Jan.-23 Apr.)
• Chapter 8. THE OFFENSIVE = 129
• The Division's fifth Medal of Honor = 130
• Lt. John Singleton, Company "C" re. New born = 130
• Lt. Ed. West re. the damaged concrete bridge = 131
• Major General charles D. Palmer = 132
• Observations of General Palmer as Division Commander = 132
• The Mid-February Battle fo Chipyong-ni = 134
• Lt. Ed. West, Company "A", re. the emgineer support = 135
• Operation KILLER launched in driving rain = 137
• Lt. Aines re. South Korean Laborers = 138
• Artificial moonlight from WWⅡ anti-aircraft light = 140
• Cpl. Richard Gile re. the wounded platoon leader = 141
• Chapter 9. CONTINUING OUR CONTEROFFENSIVE = 143
• Land of the Moring Calm by T. F. Brouse = 144
• The Hwachon Dam = 145
• General Ridgway replaces General MacArthur = 147
• CAMPAIGN Ⅴ : THE CCF SPRING OFFENSIVE(23 Apr.-8 July 1951)
• Chapter 10. A FAILED CHINESE ATTACK = 149
• Carl Hill, a replacement at Camp Drake in Japan = 149
• Comments Major Russell J. Wilson, Division Engineer = 151
• Lt. Ed. West re. Unit training = 151
• Revisit to the Hwachon Dam = 152
• Chaplains and war orphans = 153
• Sgt. Carl Hill, Company "B" re. "Lucky" = 153
• U.S. I Corps and Ⅸ Corps take the offensive = 155
• Cpl. Adelord L. Taylor, "H ／ S", re. Harlan Miller, KIA = 157
• Capt. Frank Armstrong, Battalion S-2, re. MASH = 158
• Capt. John C. Rourke, Battalion Surgeon, 7th Cav. Regt = 158
• Chapter 11. THE MONTH OF JUNE 1951 = 160
• Carl M. Hill, Company "B", the life of a replacement = 162
• SFC Marvin Halladay, Company "C", Severely wounded = 164
• PFC Carl Hill, Company "C" re. stringing wire = 164
• Lt. Ed. West, Assistant Bn S-3, the large-scale map = 165
• Lt. John Singleton, Company "C" re. One recon = 165
• PFC Carl Hill, Company "C" re. The Bridge = 166
• PFC Carl Hill, Company "C" re. Truck recovery = 166
• PFC Carl Hill, Company "C" re. Losing a truck to a stream = 167
• CAMPAIGN Ⅵ : UNITED NATIONS' OFFENSIVE(9 July-28 Nov. 1951)
• Chapter 12. JULY AND AUGUST of 1951 = 168
• Peace Negotiations = 168
• Lt. John R. Singleton re. rotation = 168
• Command Report for July 1951 = 168
• The United Nations' Forces = 170
• George R. Vogus, Company "C", re. a new career = 170
• Command Report for August 1951 = 170
• Lt. Carl W. Lomison, Company "D" re. Sgt. Weaver, KIA = 173
• Sgt. Donald O. Smith, Company "D" re. Sgt. Weaver, KIA = 173
• Capt. Frank H. Armstrong re. rotation = 174
• Cpl. Carl Hill, Company "B", The tank in a rice paddy = 174
• Cpl. Carl Hill, Company "B", re. mine clearing = 174
• Lt. Edward C. West, Bn S-3 re. Losing the Babbitt Bridge = 175
• Sgt. Glen Troyer, Company "B" re. wounds = 176
• Ruddy R. Reilly, H&S Company re. combat operations = 176
• Chpater 13. SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER OF 1951 = 178
• The first helicopter troop lifts = 178
• Command Report for September 1951 = 178
• Carl M. Hill, Company "B" re. Butterfly bombs = 180
• Leo Bevelaqua, Company "B" re. his platoon leader = 180
• Leo Bevelaqua, Company "B" re. M / Sgt Moore = 180
• Leo Bevelaqua on certifying the road was safe for tanks = 181
• Command Reports for October 1951 = 182
• Cpl. Carl M. Hill, Company "C" re. the artillery explosion = 183
• Lieutenant Carl Lomison, Company "D" re. Preparations = 183
• Cpl. Carl Hill, Company "B" re. Cpl. Lewis, KIA = 184
• Lieutenant Carl Lomison, Company "D" re. Lt. Ed West = 185
• Peace Talks resume on 22 October = 187
• Command Report for October 1951 = 187
• Chapter 14. THE FINAL MONTHS OF NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 1951
• Offensive operations halted during peace talks = 189
• Strategic Problems fo the Korean War = 189
• Command Report for November 1951 = 190
• Lieutenant James L. Stone, M.H. = 192
• Cpl. Carl M. Hill, Company "B", Thanksgiving Day 1951 = 192
• Hemmorhagic Fever = 192
• Command Report for December 1951 = 193
• Lt. Ed. West re. A situation fifteen years later = 193
• Concluding comments by Editor = 193
• North Korea of the 1990's = 194
• Appendix A. KIA 8th Engineer Battalion = 195
• Appendix B. U.S. Army Casualties in the Korean War = 197
• Appendix C. Engineer Intelligence = 198
• Appendix D. Division Tactical Air Support = 201
• Headquaters Company Roster = 205
• Medical Detachment Roster = 210
• Company "A" Roster = 210
• Company "B" Roster = 215
• Company "C" Roster = 219
• Company "D" Roster = 228
• Roster of Friends, Associates, and Former Members = 233
• Roster of Company "E" of the 8th Cavalry Regiment = 233
• Partial roster of Company "F" of 8th Cavalry Regiment = 236
• Two members of the 7th Cavalry Regiment = 237
• Literature Cited and Bibliography = 237
• Table 1. Officers and Warrant Officers of the 8th Engineers = 239
• Table 2. Assignments of Officers and Warrant Officers = 242
• MAPS
• Map Number 1 : The Korean Peninsula = 244
• Map Number 2 : Korean Rivers encountered by the Division = 245
• Map Number 3 : The Pusan Perimeter = 246
• Map Number 4 : The "Bowling Alley" north of Taegu Tabu-dongand Kasan = 247
• Map Number 5 : PyongYang to Unsan = 248
• Map Number 6 : Defense lines Kansas, Topeka, and Wyoming = 249
• PHOTOGRAPHS :
• CHAPTER 2 :
• Photo # 1. Cpl. Adelord L. Taylor and his road grader. Note that he had a box welded on top of the engine to carry his rations, water, ammunition, and sleeping bag. = 250
• Photo # 2. A closeup of Corporal Adelord L. Taylor from Vermont = 250
• Photo # 3. Chorienard from Barre, Vermont, on left and Lynch from Rutland, Vermont, on right of our only International dozer = 251
• Photo # 4. From the left Walsh, Stanger from Minnesota, Kenny, Booker from Oregon, Butler, Guderski, and Kinder from West Virginia. The dozer is a Caterpillar D-7. At that time, the Cat dozers had cable blade lift with no down pressure on the blade possi
• ble except gravity = 251
• Photo # 5. Cpl. Charles rome Leasure of Company "D". The Battle of Chirye 23 July 1950 : "Together we knocked out the NK machin gun crew." = 252
• Photo # 6. Lt. Raymond A. Whelan of Company of Company "C" destroyed two NK tanks with a daisy chain = 253
• Photo # 7. The TOKO-JUMARU Japanese Ferry from Sasebo, Japan to Pusan brought in those men who were released from the stockade to rejoin their units in combat = 253
• Photo # 8. Korean father-less families flee the Communists with all their wordly possessions. Small boys took on manly duties. Their fathers were fighting the Communists = 254
• Photo # 9. Captain Jack L. Haygood rendered the three bridges at Waegwan unusable for the NK = 254
• Photo # 10. The bridges at Waegwan, each with one span destroyed. The seven-span highway bridge is on the left. The two ten-span railroad bridges are on the right = 255
• Photo # 11. A 2 1 ／ 2 ton dump truck crossing on an underwater bridge = 255
• Photo # 12. A good medic, SFC Kenneth D. Stonbraker, on left. A hero of the NK raid on Battalion Headquarters. = 256
• Photo # 13. Lt. Frank H. Armstrong, Battalion Recon Officer = 256
• Photo # 14. Part of the Battalion Reconnaissance Section at lunch with the usual contingent of Korean children. Left ot right are Sgt. Dutcher, McCullough, Sadler, and Walsh = 257
• Photo # 15. Reconnoitering all possible fords on the Naktong River. View from the enemy side of the river = 257
• Photo # 16. Some of the South Korean police who were with Armstrong's task force southwest fo Taegu = 258
• Photo # 17. The terrain southwest of Taegu included numerous tiny rice paddies terraced into the hillsides. Lombardy poplar trees abounded = 258
• Photo # 18. The view from Pisul-San(Hill 1084) southwest of Taegu with the Naktong River in the right background. NK artillery shelling a distant abandoned village = 259
• CHAPTER 3 :
• Photo # 19. Brigadier General Frank A. Allen, of Task Force Allen, crossing the Kumho-Gang near Taegu = 260
• Photo # 20. Sgt. Richard Benedict of the 8th Cavalry Regt. on his return to Tabu-Dong in 1985 = 260
• Photo # 21. Three fine medics : SFC Smith, Sgt Foster @ 4'10" & 90lb, and Sgt Juan D. Tracy = 261
• Photo # 22. Walter Forsha was with the Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon of the 8th Cavalry Regiment = 261
• Photo # 23. Sgt. Richard Benedict of the 8th Cavalry Regt. re-visited the former command post at the Walled City of Kasan in 1985 = 262
• Photo # 24. Lt. Robert Phegley of the 8th Cav. Regt. on the left and Lt. William A. McClain who led the 8th Cav. relief force to the Walled city of Kasan. = 262
• Photo # 25. CWO E. H. "Hank" Tolliver and Chaplain James H. Goewey who must have been one of the most elderly American in the war. = 263
• Photo # 26. Lt. Elvin W. Harper on the left. Lt. Edward c. West on the right. = 263
• Photo # 27. The railroad bridge crossing the Kumho River west of Taegu, decked for vehicular crossing with pierced steel planking. The PSP was normally used as a surface for aircraft landing strips. = 264
• Photo # 28. Laying the anti-tank minefield at Sin-Dong. The NK on the ridge were under an air attack at the time. = 264
• Photo # 29. Corporal Forest N. Staley (soon to be SFC) booby trapping an anti-tank mine at Sin-Dong = 265
• Photo # 30. George Shigata from Company "B" with Russian wooden box-type anti-tank mines. They were filled with TNT and only had tiny metalllic parts which made them nearly impolssible to detect with our mine detectors = 266
• Photo # 31. A road grader Model 12 on the road to Waegwan 24 Aug. 1950 = 266
• Photo # 32. A dump-truck load of two cubic yards of aggregate being applied on the road from Taegu to Waegwan = 266
• Photo # 33. Lt. James Trayers, USMA Class 1950. Blasting rock to widen a road near Taegu in August 1950 = 267
• Photo # 34. Laundry near a South Korean village. What appears to be large fields is a rice paddy = 267
• CHAPTER 4 :
• Photo # 35. The river crossing at Naktong-ni when we broke out of the Pusan Perimeter = 268
• Photo # 36. A five-ponton Infantry Support Raft crossing the Naktong powered by outboard motors. = 268
• Photo # 37. A Russiaa T-34 tank used by the NK. = 269
• Photo # 38. Osan where we met the U.S. Force that had landed at Inchon = 269
• Photo # 39. Tailgate Taylor, William E. Taylor, who drove one of the trucks that escaped the Unsan debacle. = 270
• Photo # 40. Richard Gile was with the Task Force where his Platoon Leader was wounded = 270
• Photo # 41. The North Korean populace joyously welcomed our arrival. When we withdrew, many of them also fled to South Korea. = 271
• Photo # 42. A North Korean welcoming band of musicians = 271
• Photo # 43. Sergeant Francis A. Sarnowski. At Unsan he was wounded, captured, and released by the CCF. Many years later he retired as a Colonel. = 272
• Photo # 44. Our furthest north Battalion Command Post by the ChunChon River = 272
• Photo # 45. North Korean volunteers helping us build roads and airstrips. They are clad in their usual white clothing = 273
• CHAPTER 6 :
• Photo # 46. Captain Charles Terry, Pilot with the 6147 Tactical Control Squadron by an AT-6 World War Ⅱ Trainer. Many of these airplanes did not have a relief tube = 274
• Photo # 47. Chinese horse cavalry being bombed with napalm on 14 Nov. 1950 = 274
• Photo # 48. The Chinese had many horses tethered to the brush in each patch of woodland = 275
• Photo # 49. The debriefing following the 29 November 1950 first credited "kill" by an AT-6. Left to right are Armstrong, Chester Kochan, and the interrogator, PFC Francis J. Smith of Old Orchard Beach in Maine. = 275
• CHAPTER 7 :
• Photo # 50. Once again fatherless families flee from Seoul in Dec. 1950 = 276
• Photo # 51. Captain Armstrong by the MASH hospital's early Bell Helicopter. Three passengers in bubble plus two WIA in the litters = 276
• Photo # 52. Captain Merlin W. Anderson in mid-winter = 277
• Photo # 53. Captain Frank H. Armstrong on Christmas Day 1950 = 277
• CHAPTER 8 :
• Photo # 54. Lt. Ed West by the bridge he rebuilt at Kumnyangjang-ni = 278
• Photo # 55. The repaired bridge at Kumnyangjang-ni = 278
• Photo # 56. Artificial moonlight from WWⅡ anti-aircraft searchlights = 279
• Photo # 57. Lt. John Singleton just north of Chunchon = 279
• Photo # 58. The destroyed bridge over the Pukhan Gang, below Chunchon = 280
• CHAPTER 9
• Photo # 59. Just east of Seoul, the destoyed bridge over the Han River with a newly built floating foot bridge = 281
• Photo # 60. Our floating bridge over the Han River in 1951 Note the bridge treads are spaced for thnks. Other vehicles use one tread while the other wheels are on the timber deck. = 281
• CHAPTER 10 :
• Photo # 61. Carl Hill in June 1951. He was where the action was = 282
• CHAPTER 12 :
• Photo # 62. Volunteer John Mosiniak from Toledo, was backing up this gravel-loaded 2 1 ／ 2 ton truck as a mine detector when he hit an Anti-Tank mine, or probably two that were double decked. Miraculously he survived = 283
• Photo # 63. South Korean Army force with a 75mm pack howitzer = 283
• Photo # 64. Lieutenant Carl W. Lomison of Company "D" in August 1951 = 284
• CHAPTER 13 :
• Photo # 65. Short Leo Bevelaqua and his tall, lean, top-of-tank companion Melvin Schields a few days prior to October 3, 1951. That was his last day of combat. = 285
• Personnel Index
• Poems, Lyrics, and Sonnets by T.F. Brouse = 286
• Anecdotes = 286
• Citations = 286
• General Personnel Index = 287
• Index of Rivers and Dams = 291
• Index of Geographical Locations = 292
• Index of Events = 294