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Renewed Remembrance: Marking 70 years since the Korean War Armistice
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This Crazy Korean War Battle Rivaled Iwo Jima in Bloodiness
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Dan Blocker poses for a photograph dressed as his Bonanza character, March 1, 1968. (Department of Defense)
On the TV show “Bonanza,” Dan Blocker played the large but affable Eric “Hoss” Cartwright. At 6’4” and 320 pounds, and by all accounts “the most likable cast member” on the show, Blocker fit the part perfectly.
But less than a decade before the show debuted on NBC, some North Korean soldiers near Hill 223 were watching a very different man. They saw 1st Sgt. Blocker, who was defending the area along with other members of the “Thunderbirds” of the famed 45th Infantry Division.
Blocker was always a big, soft-hearted guy. He was a star football player in his native Texas during his college years. After finishing a master’s degree in drama in 1950, he was drafted into the Army and was fighting in Korea the next year.
Fighting for the Hook: A Forgotten Battle of the Korean War
United Nations forces fought a series of bloody battles with Chinese and Korean Communists for a piece of strategic real estate known as “the Hook.”
Here s What You Need to Know: The heroic actions of those who fought so bravely on the Hook have been largely forgotten.
Peering intently through a telescope, General Lemuel C. Shepherd, the commandant of the Marine Corps, scanned the shell-pocked Korean terrain in front of his position. Shepherd had made a special visit to the Korean front lines to obtain a firsthand view of the Main of Line of Resistance (MLR) his Marines were defending. In the early spring of 1952, under orders from the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea, the entire 25,000-man 1st Marine Division had moved from the east-central sector of the country to the western part of I Corps to man positions along the extreme left flank of an area called the Jamestown Line. In early March the Marines, joined by the attach
Description
Unopened shell dressing with instructions for use printed directly onto the sewn cover. Supplied by the War Office Army Medical Corps, and issued directly to Private Kammermann on his arrival in Korea. Made in Oldbury, England and dated October 1944, the package contains a cotton and gauze packing ready for use with shell wounds.
History / Summary
Harry McDonald Kammerman was born in Wudinna, South Australia on 9 March 1930. He served as a private with the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2 RAR) under service number 4/400189, arriving in Iwakuni, Japan on 7 January 1953 on a commercial Qantas flight. Passing through Hong Kong immigration, he had filled out the Purpose of Visit as Entertainment of Communist troops at Chosen .
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