Fallen Comrade
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Fallen Comrade

A Story of the Korean War

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Fallen Comrade

A Story of the Korean War

About this book

Fallen Comrade: A Story of the Korean War presents an account of three young men from Clinton, Mississippi, who served in the US Marine Corps during the Korean War. Waller King, Joe Albritton, and Homer Ainsworth were childhood friends who grew up in the same neighborhood, went to the same schools, attended the same church, and eventually joined the same Marine Corps reserve unit in Jackson. Through extensive interviews with people who knew them, as well as excerpts from their letters and journals, this volume traces the life experiences of King, Albritton, and Ainsworth through their adolescence and into the war. Despite their shared origins, the three young men met different fates. Ainsworth was in Korea just two months before he was killed. Albritton and King returned home after the war, but Albritton died tragically in an automobile accident mere weeks later. King went on to college and experienced success in business, the joys of a family, and the rewards of community service, all of which were denied his childhood friends by their early deaths. Part biography and part military history, Fallen Comrade examines what happened to three young men from Clinton, their childhood in small-town Mississippi, their service as Marines in Korea, and their legacy to their hometown.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Military Units
  7. United Nations Support in Korea
  8. List of Maps
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1 The Backstory
  11. Chapter 2 American Intervention, June–August 1950
  12. Chapter 3 Inchon and Seoul, September–October 1950
  13. Chapter 4 Chinese Intervention, October–November 1950
  14. Chapter 5 The Saga of the Chosin Reservoir, November–December 1950
  15. Chapter 6 An Entirely New War, December 1950–April 1951
  16. Chapter 7 Fallen Comrade, April–June 1951
  17. Chapter 8 The Fight for Hill 749, June–November 1951
  18. Chapter 9 The Armistice, December 1951–July 1953
  19. Afterword
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. Notes
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index
  24. About the Author