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2nd Infantry Division
(2id), Korean War Veterans Alliance invites you to
visit this site. If you or someone you know served with or was
attached to the 2ID during the three year Korean War, click
on and print MS Word
application.
If you are seeking information about a relative
only that served in the 2ID during the Korean War, send a message
to our Secretary. Give dates, unit and action and send it to
Ralph Hockley.
Unless you have this information go to these sites first and
get information there. They have the records, we don't.
Form
180
http://www.archives.gov/foia/
http://www.archives.gov/veterans/evetrecs/index.html
http://www.archives.gov/facilities/mo/st_louis/military_personnel_records.html
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/obtain_copies/veterans_service_records.html
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/obtain_copies/reproductions_overview.html#microfilm
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Interesting web information about Australian Korean
War Veterans and cancer. A must read for those that have or
have had cancer. http://kvacanada.com/
and MORTALITY
STUDY 2003 Australian Veterans of the Korean War.
Filmed at the Library of Congress.Listen
to C-Span's 2007 National Book Festival: Korean
War Veterans discuss David Halberstam's "The
Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War" Five
(5) 2nd Infanry Division Veterans were interviewed. You will
need Real Player.
You
can place your pre publishing order for that book through our
sales department.
$25.00 +$4.00 S/H. It's not on the form so write it in.
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For those of you that have been back to Seoul,
Korea, you may have interested in news stories about the fire
that just destroyed the at the Namdeamun
(South) Gate.
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Soldier
Missing in Action From Korean War is Identified
The
Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced,
December 20, 2007, that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing
in action from the Korean War, have been identified and will
be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
He
is Cpl. Robert S. Ferrell, U.S. Army, of Dallas, Texas. His
burial date is being set by his family.
Representatives
from the Army met with Ferrell's next-of-kin to explain the
recovery and identification process, and to coordinate interment
with military honors on behalf of the secretary of the Army.
On
Feb. 12, 1951, Ferrell was assigned to Battery A, 503rd Field
Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, then occupying a
position about 70 miles east of Seoul, South Korea. The 503rd
was providing artillery support for friendly units coming under
heavy attack by Chinese Communist Forces. In danger of being
overrun, the 503rd was forced to withdraw to the south.
Records
indicate that Ferrell was captured near Hoengsong, South Korea,
during the fighting. He later died in captivity at the Suan
Mining POW camp located about 40 miles southeast of Pyongyang,
North Korea.
Between
1990 and 1994, the North Korean government repatriated what
they claimed to be 208 sets of remains, including a 1991 turnover
of several servicemen recovered near the Suan Mining POW camp.
Ferrell's remains, along with cold-weather clothing and uniform
buttons worn by U.S. infantry, were included in the 1991 repatriation.
Among
other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence,
scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification
Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA and dental comparisons
in the identification of Ferrell's remains.
For
additional information on the Defense Department's mission to
account for missing Americans, visit the DPMO Web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo
or call (703) 699-1169.
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I hear that Wal-Mart is going back to their
roots. Is it the one they sold only things made in America?
How many of you remember that?
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