DMZ ambush survivors seen lucky to be alive
Observers at the scene of Sunday night's bold ambush by Communist North Koreans who machine-gunned and killed four United Nations Command soldiers reached one conclusion: "I don't see how anybody survived this."
Japanese scream their dread of fire-spitting tanks as Oki escarpment becomes funeral pyre
Now that censorship has been lifted on the details of flame-throwing tanks, it’s possible to tell how they clicked during the largest-scale tank action of the Okinawa campaign.
VFW club offers servicemembers an alternative to South Korean bars
The Army should encourage soldiers to party at Veterans of Foreign Wars clubs, something that would help keep them away from trouble at South Korean bars, say patrons at the Tongduchoen VFW club.
Life-belted wounded cast overboard, but destroyer outfights suicide corps
Her superstructure was a flaming shambles, her skipper and 76 of her complement were dead, her wounded had to be placed in life jackets and cast overboard, but the destroyer Hazelwood refused to go down.
After Hours: Staying juicy-free at Kunsan’s Full House
When I go out to a bar, I prefer not to have a “juicy girl” pouring me $20 domestic beers for the privilege of conversing in broken English.
John Wayne scouts Okinawa for Green Beret film sites
Film star John Wayne and director Ray Kellogg flew back to the U.S. Wednesday after a one-day visit here in search of location sites for a new film to be shot this summer about the Green Berets.
Pfc. Kills 30 Japanese in 15 minutes, snaps line battalion couldn’t dent
An infantry replacement who cracked a Japanese defense line that whole battalions couldn’t even dent is rapidly becoming a legend hereabouts.
