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9781557505460

Unexpected Journey : A Marine Corps Reserve Company in the Korean War

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  • ISBN13:

    9781557505460

  • ISBN10:

    1557505462

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-10-01
  • Publisher: Naval Inst Pr
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Summary

A stirring account of the Korean War follows one U.S. Marine Corps reserve unit's painful journey from post-World War II prosperity and peace to the bloody battlefields of Asia.

Author Biography

Randy K. Mills is an associate professor of history at Oakland City University in Oakland City, Indiana.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
An Eddy on the Stream of Events
1(30)
Like Lightning Out of a Clear Sky
31(25)
All the Boot Camp You Want
56(23)
Just the Night Before, We Were Laughing
79(31)
Home by Christmas
110(44)
It Looks as if I Were Mad at Something
154(28)
Go Back Home and Tell Everybody There's a War On
182(35)
Every Time I See a Marine...
217(18)
Appendix / Final Disbandment Roster 235(4)
Notes 239(16)
Bibliography 255(6)
Index 261

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