Casualty of the Korean War.
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On the night of August 18, 1952, the men from Company E, 45th Infantry Division of the 279th Infantry Regiment finished their field training exercises. The forty-one men had come from various parts of the United States and were there in North Korea serving as soldiers in the Korean War. The weather had been ferocious and rain pummeled the ground, the remnants of a typhoon earlier that week, as the men headed back toward their battalion headquarters. They headed across a sandbar through a knee-deep river near Inje. The men on foot were followed by a large truck carrying eight men and ammunition. When halfway across the sandbar, a flash flood suddenly sent a rush of water racing down a nearby mountain, raising the water level to nine feet. A wall of water, also about nine feet, crashed over the men, turning over the truck, taking thirty lives in its powerful grip and carrying them downstream. The platoon leader, a lieutenant, tried heroically to rescue men from the water but drowned in the process.
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On the night of August 18, 1952, the men from Company E, 45th Infantry Division of the 279th Infantry Regiment finished their field training exercises. The forty-one men had come from various parts of the United States and were there in North Korea serving as soldiers in the Korean War. The weather had been ferocious and rain pummeled the ground, the remnants of a typhoon earlier that week, as the men headed back toward their battalion headquarters. They headed across a sandbar through a knee-deep river near Inje. The men on foot were followed by a large truck carrying eight men and ammunition. When halfway across the sandbar, a flash flood suddenly sent a rush of water racing down a nearby mountain, raising the water level to nine feet. A wall of water, also about nine feet, crashed over the men, turning over the truck, taking thirty lives in its powerful grip and carrying them downstream. The platoon leader, a lieutenant, tried heroically to rescue men from the water but drowned in the process.
Casualty of the Korean War.
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On the night of August 18, 1952, the men from Company E, 45th Infantry Division of the 279th Infantry Regiment finished their field training exercises. The forty-one men had come from various parts of the United States and were there in North Korea serving as soldiers in the Korean War. The weather had been ferocious and rain pummeled the ground, the remnants of a typhoon earlier that week, as the men headed back toward their battalion headquarters. They headed across a sandbar through a knee-deep river near Inje. The men on foot were followed by a large truck carrying eight men and ammunition. When halfway across the sandbar, a flash flood suddenly sent a rush of water racing down a nearby mountain, raising the water level to nine feet. A wall of water, also about nine feet, crashed over the men, turning over the truck, taking thirty lives in its powerful grip and carrying them downstream. The platoon leader, a lieutenant, tried heroically to rescue men from the water but drowned in the process.
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On the night of August 18, 1952, the men from Company E, 45th Infantry Division of the 279th Infantry Regiment finished their field training exercises. The forty-one men had come from various parts of the United States and were there in North Korea serving as soldiers in the Korean War. The weather had been ferocious and rain pummeled the ground, the remnants of a typhoon earlier that week, as the men headed back toward their battalion headquarters. They headed across a sandbar through a knee-deep river near Inje. The men on foot were followed by a large truck carrying eight men and ammunition. When halfway across the sandbar, a flash flood suddenly sent a rush of water racing down a nearby mountain, raising the water level to nine feet. A wall of water, also about nine feet, crashed over the men, turning over the truck, taking thirty lives in its powerful grip and carrying them downstream. The platoon leader, a lieutenant, tried heroically to rescue men from the water but drowned in the process.
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