Ted Barris - Deadlock in Korea: Canadians at War, 1950-1953

Ted Barris divides his time between teaching at Torontos Centennial College in the journalism department and writing/ broadcasting professionally. His work on CBC and TVO is well known (he has earned a Billboard Radio Documentary Award and numerous ACTRA Award nominations) and his bylines appear in such publications as the National Post and Globe and Mail, and the Legion, Beaver, and Air Force magazines. He has published 16 non-fiction books. In 1993, he received the Canada 125 Medal for service to Canada and community. In 2004, the Remembrance Service Association of Halifax recognized Ted Barris and his military history writing with its annual Patriot Award. In 2006, the 78th Fraser Highlander regiment awarded Barris its annual excellence award, the Bear Hackle Award, to recognize his contribution to the awareness and preservation of Canadian military history and traditions.

Since January 1997, David Bercuson has been the Director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary and is also the Director of Programs of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, based in Calgary. He has published on a wide range of topics, specializing in modern Canadian politics, Canadian defence and foreign policy, and Canadian military history. His most recent book is The Fighting Canadians; Our Regimental History fromNew France to Afghanistan.

Books o f Merit

Deadlock in Korea

ALSO BY TED BARRIS

MILITARY HISTORY

Behind the Glory: Canadas Role in the Allied Air War (1st edition, 1992)

Juno: Canadians at D-Day, June6,1944

Days of Victory: Canadians Remember,19391945 (with Alex Barris, 1st edition, 1995)

Deadlock in Korea: Canadians at War,19501953 (1st edition, 1999)

Canada and Korea: Perspectives2000 (contributor)

Days of Victory: Canadians Remember,19391945 (Sixtieth Anniversary edition, 2005)

Victory at Vimy: Canada Comes of Age, April912, 1917

Breaking the Silence: Veterans Untold Storiesfrom the Great War to Afghanistan

OTHER NON-FICTION

Fire Canoe: Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited

Rodeo Cowboys: The Last Heroes

Positive Power: The Story of the Edmonton Oilers Hockey Club

Spirit of the West: The Beginnings, the Land, the Life

Playing Overtime: A Celebration of Oldtimers Hockey

Carved in Granite:125Years of Granite Club History

Making Music: Profiles from a Century of Canadian Music (with Alex Barris)

101Things Canadians Should Know About Canada (contributor)

DEADLOCK IN

KOREA

CANADIANS
AT WAR,
19501953

TED BARRIS

THOMAS ALLEN PUBLISHERS
TORONTO

Copyright 2010 Ted Barris
Original hardcover edition copyright 1999 Ted Barris

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Barris, Ted
Deadlock in Korea : Canadians at war, 1950-1953 / Ted Barris.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-88762-528-2

1. CanadaArmed ForcesHistoryKorean War, 19501953. 2. CanadaCanadian ArmyHistoryKorean War, 19501953. 3. Korean War, 19501953Participation, Canadian. I. Title.

DS919.2.B37 2010 951.904'240971 C2009-907223-8

Jacket image: Stefano Rellandini

Published by Thomas Allen Publishers,
a division of Thomas Allen & Son Limited,
145 Front Street East, Suite 209,
Toronto, Ontario M5A 1E3 Canada
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This book was originally published in hardcover by Macmillan Canada in 1999.

The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of
the Ontario Arts Council for its publishing program.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which
last year invested $2O.1 million in writing and publishing throughout Canada.

We acknowledge the Government of Ontario through the
Ontario Media Development Corporations Ontario Book Initiative.

We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book
Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for our publishing activities.

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Printed and bound in Canada

For Don Stickland and l Korea veterans like him.
They volunteered to restore peace in a war zone and
battled in peacetime to get these stories told.

CONTENTS

The completion of this volume is the result of much energy and cooperation from friends, professionals and many veterans of the Korean War. But the book could never have happened without the initial efforts of the Korea Veterans Association of Canada, in particular, the KVA book committee in London, Ontario. Its assembly of veterans diaries, memoirs, anecdotes, clippings, and photographs constitutes the genesis of this book.

Many others, individually and collectively, offered assistance when, as usual, the end seemed so distant from the beginning.

Fellow journalists, reporters and authors offered their help. Author John Melady allowed me to quote from his library of Korea veterans interviews. Terry Scott, of Broadcast News, helped open the doors of the Canadian Press archives to the files of war correspondent Bill Boss. Author Carl Christie offered documentary support. Senior Writer DArcy Jenish assisted at the Macleans magazine archives. Korea veteran Les Peate provided material from his esprit de corps columns. And former North Korean Young Sik Kim permitted the publication of excerpts from his personal memoirs.

Others loaned the author original materials: Dal Richards offered files on his wife, entertainer Lorraine McAllister. Terri OConnor and her mother, Vera, allowed the publication of Pat OConnors poem Blood on the Hills. Jack LaChance and the KVA permitted the publication of the poem The Korea Veterans Wall. Terry (Dale) Millar and Lew Lewis contributed Wayne and Shuster photos and clippings. Tom Boutillier gave access to files on the Canoe River train crash. Ken and Belle Charlton sent original material on the sports junket to Korea. Ken McOrmond passed along binders of pictures and memoirs. Neil Goodwill contributed navy diaries. And Col. Deuk-Hwan Kim, at the Republic of Korea embassy in Ottawa, sent original data. For additional archive recordings, the author thanks Ron MacDonald and the RCAF Memorial Museum at CFB Trenton, Ontario, and Barbara Clarke at the CBC Radio archives. The author is also grateful to Bill Allan and Unit 57 of the KVA in Mississauga, Ontario, for their assistance in the compilation of the Wall of Remembrance story.