My grandfather was among the British troops who where sent to fight in the Korean war. He was a attached to an American engineering regiment as a minesweeper. He didn't tell me much about it, but what he did say was that winter was the worst he ever experienced. The ground was frozen as hard as concrete and bodies couldn't be burried. I'm told there's a picture of him on the boat back to his base in Hong Kong at the end of the war. He was skin and bones as he like many others had dysentery.
So it seems like some bombs were indeed dropped in China. My grandfather was sent to fight the war shortly after to fight your grandfathers, he lost most of his comrades, he said it was the toughest war he fought (of 5). Chinese soldiers' casualty was 10x higher than the UN armies, but Mao said they better fight in Korea and keep Korea as the buffer zone before the war zone spreads to China even further. People afraid it would become ww3 if not pushing the frontline away from China.
My grandfather was a sniper. When he spoke of the war he only told funny stories. Like how they would sleep on the beach and wake up surrounded by crabs in the middle of the night. So then they'd stab them with their knives and some other group would come by and gather them up and cook them. There is another story about him accidentally peeing on an Australians leg in a deep forest. He never told his grandkids what he did in the war. I think in a way it bothered him, but also maybe he didn't want us to look at him different.
He always insisted they weren't there as American troops but as a UN peacekeeping force. A point driven home by the UN flag on the soldiers caskets they returned. Sorry this rambled a bit. He was a good man and I miss him.
![image showing The Korean War Armistice was signed July 27, 1953. Here's a map showing aerial bombings during the war. [OC]](530d640c-0590-5f51-8937-a13b55cfdf9c.jpg)
CMDR_Bacon on July 27th, 2018 at 14:21 UTC »
My grandfather was among the British troops who where sent to fight in the Korean war. He was a attached to an American engineering regiment as a minesweeper. He didn't tell me much about it, but what he did say was that winter was the worst he ever experienced. The ground was frozen as hard as concrete and bodies couldn't be burried. I'm told there's a picture of him on the boat back to his base in Hong Kong at the end of the war. He was skin and bones as he like many others had dysentery.
arthurillusion on July 27th, 2018 at 14:53 UTC »
So it seems like some bombs were indeed dropped in China. My grandfather was sent to fight the war shortly after to fight your grandfathers, he lost most of his comrades, he said it was the toughest war he fought (of 5). Chinese soldiers' casualty was 10x higher than the UN armies, but Mao said they better fight in Korea and keep Korea as the buffer zone before the war zone spreads to China even further. People afraid it would become ww3 if not pushing the frontline away from China.
phidya on July 27th, 2018 at 16:57 UTC »
My grandfather was a sniper. When he spoke of the war he only told funny stories. Like how they would sleep on the beach and wake up surrounded by crabs in the middle of the night. So then they'd stab them with their knives and some other group would come by and gather them up and cook them. There is another story about him accidentally peeing on an Australians leg in a deep forest. He never told his grandkids what he did in the war. I think in a way it bothered him, but also maybe he didn't want us to look at him different.
He always insisted they weren't there as American troops but as a UN peacekeeping force. A point driven home by the UN flag on the soldiers caskets they returned. Sorry this rambled a bit. He was a good man and I miss him.