By mid-July 1950, the war in Korea was less than three weeks old, and was going very badly for the Republic of Korea (ROK) and American forces. The North Korean People’s Army (KPA) had been able to sustain battlefield artillery and armor, the KPA overwhelmed...
Private First Class Busch was a member of Battery C, 555th Field Artillery Battalion, 5th Infantry Regimental Combat Team. He was listed as Missing in Action while fighting the enemy near Kumsong, North Korea on July 14, 1953. He was presumed dead on July 15, 1954. We...
Carson Raymond Martin was born to Martha Frances and Charles Martin on September 3, 1909 in Baltimore, Maryland, the older of two sons. When his father Charles died in the Great Flu Epidemic in 1919, Carson and his brother Harry moved with their mother to her hometown...
On November 27, 1950, Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) engaged in a sudden, large-scale offensive against U.S. and U.N. forces positioned around the Chosin Reservoir in north-east North Korea. Two regiments from the 1st Marine Division were stationed in Yudam-ni, a town...
(Originally posted 06 December 2018) Navy Seaman 1st Class William Bruesewitz, killed at the Pearl Harbor attack, will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery Dec. 7 on the 77th anniversary of the incident. Bruesewitz, 26, of Appleton, Wisconsin, was assigned to...
