Lt Col Melvin B. Voorhees - Korean Tales
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KOREAN TALES
BY
LT.-COL. MELVIN B. VOORHEES, USA
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER
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DEDICATION
TO MY MOTHER
BY WAY OF EXPLANATION
Eighth United States Army in Korea is a unique and historic military headquarters, the first of its type and the first of its purpose. For Eighth Army Headquarters directs the ground forces of sixteen nations bound together in a peace pact and sworn mutually to resist aggression.
EUSAK is the first United Nations military command in the field and the first to carry the UN banner into battle.
EUSAK is the first and only United Nations army. It has been said that should the Eighth accomplish its Korean mission, no other such army might be neededever.
As the comparatively spirited opening of a stodgy but militarily acceptable prosaism on Eighth Army, the above was penned by me in May, 1951, and published in Pacific Stars & Stripes, the daily newspaper of our Armed Forces in the Far East, on June 25, first anniversary of the wars outbreak.
When I saw my remarks in print, I was struck anew by the conviction that EUSAK truly was uncommonly uncommon not alone in the military sense nor in its mighty role in the unfolding drama that makes history. It was also unique in its personalities, its fabric of many men of many nations, its lone stand against the Red hordes, its strange, medieval setting, its backdrop of the stricken Korean peopleand its bewilderment amid the crosscurrents of power politics.
It was, I believe, primarily this consciousness of the unique nature of EUSAK that led me to begin writing the various more or less random pieces that now comprise this volume of Korean Tales . They were, inevitably, set down on paper at odd moments and in many different places during the eighteen months I spent on active duty in Korea, and were assembled in their present form after my return to this country in May, 1952.
Others, better equipped technically to do so, doubtless will write the full story of the bold battle history of EUSAK . Catalogue this volume as an assortment of fact, opinion, and fiction set down by an individual American who served in the army in Korea in such manner as to see a good deal, hear much more, and enjoy or suffer certain experiences, both direct and vicarious.
The several chapters, interspersed throughout the book, that are set apart as fiction, all are based on actual happenings either in part or in toto. If they give rise to a picture of the obscure people, soldiers and civilians, in the Korean pita picture to set alongside the oft-seen photos of the great ones of that bitter stagethen they will have achieved their sole purpose.
In places this book is controversial, and it is deliberately so. I have been no more able than any other man ever has been on any subject of importance to tell the whole truth, voice the most rounded possible opinion, or say that last conclusive word. No more than any average being have I been able to conceal my prejudices and predilections; but I trust them, for they stem, I must believe, from an honest heart and a balanced mind. If I have inspired disagreeable argument or opened painful wounds, I have done so with no malice and solely because of a persuasion that certain topics, too often the subject of whisper and gossip, should be aired frankly.
I feel it most important to emphasize that the contents of this book are in no way intended to depict the official attitude of Department of Defense, Department of the Army, Eighth Army, or any other branch of the military establishment. It would be the very opposite of my intention if the fact of my military rank were to be construed as giving undue weight to what I have written here. Korean Tales reflects no morethough, surely, no lessthan my own experiences, observations, and opinions and bears the imprint of no other authority of any kind.
M. B. V.
THIS IS HOW IT WAS
PERHAPS YOU SAW that picture of the young man sprawled in the dirt of Korea with his face mutilated and a wound in his side and with his outstretched hand mangled by angry cuts. But no, of course you didnt, because that was a picture General Headquarters in faraway Japan decided wouldnt be good for the public at home to see and so it wasnt released and maybe it was just as well that way.
Still, people who pay the bills and furnish the men to make possible such pictures ought to know something of what passed before the calm camera record was made, and possibly they would like to be told in a matter-of-fact and mild way; and if they wouldnt, well then they should be made to listen anyhow just once at least.
The young man whose last picture that was bore the name ofbut then thats no matter because it would be meaningful to only a few people and already theyve been told how he fought heroically and was a fine comrade and it doesnt matter to the rest who he was. But it does seem that they ought to know how that sort of thing can come upon a fellow soldiering away off in a peculiar country for a cause thats a little dim for him in its details.
When a conversation concerning him was going on back at Army Headquarters, Corporal Jim (Jim was his first name) didnt know a thing about it and wouldnt have known if hed been listening, and neither did the Army Commander and his Assistant Chief-of-Staff for Operations know they were talking in any way whatever about Corporal Jim or his future.
General, the Assistant Chief said, I believe we should push up and seize this area lying in a triangle from DS2973 to DS4379 to DS3397, and with those letters and figures the Assistant Chief had indicated a huge plot of mountainland on a map under a military grid system with which any spot on the earths surface can be located; but where Corporal Jim was then neither of the officers knew or needed to know and as to where he was according to that grid system Jim had not the slightest notion nor the least interest.
The Army Commander thought pretty well of the Assistant Chiefs proposal and that at least it was something concrete even if it was on a very broad scale and would involve a good many thousands of nebulous men on both sides, so he dropped in next door to see his Chief-of-Staff and suggested, Lets get Ten Corps to move some of its people up in here about six miles, and of course he was pointing to a spot on a map. A Chief-of-Staff reacts right briskly to the wishes of an Army Commander and so this one, who was even more efficient and responsive than most, at once summoned the Assistant Chief-of-Staff for intelligence and asked him, What has the enemy got in this area? and again a finger was laid on the triangular plot in the mountains where at that moment Jim was washing his spare drawers in a sparkling little stream and thinking of his young wife standing in line at the automatic laundry down the street with a bundle under her left arm and two-bits in her right hand, as he once had seen her.
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