Gender

Male

Birth date

1930-5-19

Place of birth

Fort Lupton CO, U.S.A.

Inducted

1951-9-1, Denver CO

Enlistment type

Draftee

Service branch

Army

Service type

War

Unit type

Combat

Units served

Fox Co., 223rd Infantry Regt, 40th Division, Korea; USARPAC - 60th Bn, 61st Co, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.

Military specialty

Infantry

Stationed

Schofield Barracks, HI, Ft Benning, GA (OCS),USA; Korea.

Separated

Ft. Carson CO

Unit responsibility

Combat in Korea

Personal responsibility

Squad leader

Major battles (if served in a war zone)

Punch Bowl, Heartbreak Ridge

Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)

Bronze Star w/'V', U.N. Seervice Medal, Korean Service Medal w/3 Bronze Service Stars, Combat Infantry Badge, Purple Heart, National Defense Service Medal, Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation Badge.

Living conditions

Lived in cold bunker, slept on cots made out of wires, no bathing, C rations to eat, no entertainment on front lines.

Most vivid memory of military experience

Being cold, lonely and afraid. Going on many patrols, wondering if I would ever survive. Bringing in a prisoner through an open field with (in my mind at the time) every enemy soldier firing at us.

Missed most whilst in the military

Home and family.

Most important thing, personally, to come from military experience?

War is a terrible thing, for us and also the enemy soldiers. We are trying to kill soldiers who are exactly like us - afraid to kill and afraid to die. Movies and TV glamorize war as something that is fun.