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| I've gotten orders to report back to the rear for my ride home. This picture of the 3rd Battalion's CP is of my last home on the front and was taken as we whizzed past. I'd left the Signal Corp's Jeep I'd "borrowed" parked where the vehicles are shown above. I hope the Signal Corp guy found his Jeep again. I'd never saw him after the night he gave us the ride to the MLR.. | This picture, looking South, is of the two bridges crossing the Han Tan river. The bridge on the left was permanent, but during flood season was under water. The bridge to the right was a pontoon bridge intended to float and stay above water level during flood season. Click here to go to the official Engineers in Korea site for more pictures of this crossing of the Han Tan river. | |
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| We cross on the pontoon bridge looking towards the East at the permanent bridge. Regimental headquarters are on the other side of the peak shown. I stood on top of the peak above when taking earlier pictures looking North over the Ch'orwon valley. | Back at the division supply depot looking across the ammunition dump. I'm now just waiting to catch a ride home. Things here are serene and peaceful compared to the chaos that was happening around OP Harry at that time. | |
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One last picture of my hosts at S4. |
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| Lt. Phelps. The "crazy" pose reflects a conversation I'd had with him earlier. His job during the last week of attacks was to pick up bodies (and body parts) from the battlefield and cart them away by the 2-1/2 ton truckload. I've wondered many times during the last 50 years how his life has been since those times. | ||
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