Combat_Actions_in_Korea.pdf

ARMY HISTORICAL SERIES

COMBAT ACTIONS IN KOREA

Russell A. Gugeler

CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY

UNITED STATES ARMY

WASHINGTON, D.C., 1987

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 70-603408

First Printed 1954–CMH Pub 30-2

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office

Washington, D.C. 20402

Foreword

* This book was originally published in 1954, revised in 1970, and in

demand and print since then. The accounts of small-unit actions were written

primarily for junior officers, noncommissioned officers, and privates of the United

States Army who had not yet been in battle. The object was to acquaint them

with the realities of their own fields.

Since the Korean War, some of the tools and procedures of battle have

changed, but the basic conditions of combat have not. Indeed, the surprises, con-

fusion, and problems faced on one battlefield generally resemble the difficulties

met on another. Accounts of battle experience at other times in other places, then,

continue to have instructive value. It is with this fact in mind that this book is

being reprinted.

One of the accounts contained in the original version was omitted after a

review of the source material on which it was based revealed several irreconcilable

errors. All of the other episodes appearing in the 1970 revised edition continue to

appear in their original form. Those who absorb the lessons they offer can substan-

tially increase their competence as leaders and members of small units in battle,

and all students of military history should find profit in these intimate and objective

stories of combat action.

The Center of Military History is pleased to continue this popular work.

Washington, D.C.

DOUGLAS KINNARD

Brigadier General, USA (Ret.)

Chief of Military History

20 July 1984