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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

The sniper, the bunker

Dear readers.so many little incidents happenned on that hill..I am writing them not in order but as I rememeber them,,..Phillip Meyer S/sgt Ret
                                                                             JMJ
Kumwah,North Korea
"L" Co, 5th RCT 24th Div.
Phillip Meyer S/sgt Ret.
 November 1951
                                                                   The Sniper
 So many things happened on that hill,,Maybe not as they happened but as I remember them.One day I was standing by a bunker close to that big boulder,An officer came with a couple other soldiers with a 50 cal machine gun,a large telescope,,He had the machine gun set up and put the telescope on it,Then he told us he was going to get one..(One = an enemy soldier).He aimed the 50 cal which had been fixed to fire on shot just one bullet in the chamber/,The officer kept looking through the telescope.Then he pulled the trigger and said "I got one"with that the machine gun was taken apart and his men took it down the hill.,The next day he came up again and repeated the process,,,When you think that from where we stood looking straight ahead we could actually see the Chinese soldiers going through the trenches thats how close we were.
                                                                 
                                                                   The Bunker
The bunker I slept in I found out had a tragic story,As I came out the opening on the right side of te bunker
there to my right was that huge boulder.Before we had occupied this bunker, the company before us on this listening post all of them were asleep,The Chinese climbed on top the big boulder no one fired at them.then they went in the bunkers and fox holes killing as they went.To the front a soldier saw the chinese on the boulders and knew something was happening then the fire fight began but it was to late for many of the soldiers. So I was sleeping in a bunker where soldiers had been killed..
                                                                       The Bunker 2
One day in that bunker with nothing happening I found a weapon I had never fired before.A shot gun..I do not remember the gauge but I put a couple of rounds in it and went to the end of the bunker and pointed it out at some brush and fired away just to get the feel of the weapon,,However that did not make much happen until one day.My buddy and I wanted to warm up some C-rations,So at the end of the bunker we built a small fire and started to heat up the rations,The smoke from the fire going out the bunker window,Soon we hear explosions near our bunker. We thought some soldier throwing a grenade,,So we shouted "Stop throwing the grenades" but the response was."The smoke from your fire is drawing mortar fire from the Chinese" So we quickly put out the fire and the mortar attack stopped...
More later Phillip Meyer S/sgt Ret.