Category: Korean War

Tweet of the Day: The Mechanized Angel

| January 6, 2020

Remains of Chosin Reservoir Soldier to Return Home to Michigan

| October 13, 2019

Another Korean War era hero is coming home:

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency officials conduct an honorable carry ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii on Aug. 1, 2018, for the 55 cases believed to contain the remains of American service members lost in the Korean War. (Senior Airman Mikaley Kline/Air Force)

 The remains of a Michigan soldier who went missing during the Korean War’s fierce Battle of Chosin Reservoir are being returned home after DNA testing confirmed that he died in that battle nearly 70 years ago.

U.S. Army Sgt. David Alexander Feriend was 23 in December 1950 when he was listed as missing in action, after the brutal 17-day siege near the Chosin Reservoir in eastern North Korea. 

Feriend’s remains were among 55 boxes of human remains that North Korea turned over to the U.S. after a June 2018 summit in Singapore between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced in August that Feriend had been “accounted for.” DNA testing verified that the remains in box number 36 were those of Feriend, WOOD-TV reported.

Army Times

You can read more at the link.

Remembering the Incheon Landing Operation 69 Years Later

| September 16, 2019

This weekend is the 69th anniversary of the Incheon Landing Operation that turned the tide of the Korean War. It will be interesting to see who in the current Moon administration will take the time to attend any memorials to the U.S. troops that died executing the operation.

Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez of the Marine Corps is shown scaling a seawall after landing on Red Beach. Minutes after this photo was taken, Lopez was killed when smothering a live grenade with his body. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

You can read more about the Incheon Landing Operation at the below link:

https://www.rokdrop.net/2005/09/the-inchon-landing-operation-chromite/