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| My last afternoon in the combat zone of Korea is gray and cloudy. Sort of a fitting ending summary of my stay here. | Early the next morning trucks arrive from the South with new replacements. Lots of holes to fill in the TO&E (Table of Organization. and Equipment.) | |
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| One last photo of the now very familiar shot across the Ch'orwon valley, this time in the early morning sun rising above the place where the town of Ch'orwon used to be. Or still was, if you can visualize a town built of brick, steel, and concrete reduced to rubble no more than knee high. The tallest object left in the town's center was a utility station's transformer. | We arrive in Inchon. The bulletin board at the bottom right says that our ship back to Japan is carrying a load of wounded back to Japan so we will have about a week to wait while it makes the round trip. | |
| At the time I took this picture I thought it a typical Korean street scene. Looking at it now I'm struck by the total lack of any vehicles. | Again farming in any space that someone is not actually living on. It was startling, at first, to see houses actually standing and people moving around. I'd turned in my fully automatic M2 carbine when I left the combat zone, and was feeling naked without it. | |
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