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1.The Chosin Reservoir Campaign by Gray, Colonel (Retired) John E. Recall Vol. 11 Issue 2, Fall 2005
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This is Part I of Colonel John E. Gray’s combat story of the Chosin Reservoir Campaign published from his memoirs. Gray describes the combat actions during the Korean War of the US Army’s, 7th Infantry Division units that fought on the East side of the Chosin Reservoir in late November 1950. Gray describes the events leading up to beginning of the battle and the events that followed.
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Ltc. Sion H. Harrington, III repeats of a story told to him by Chaplin Larry Smedley of the 82nd Airborne Division of a paratrooper exercise at the Jungle Operations Training Center training in Panama. Smedley was on a jump exercise as an enlisted man years before when an accident happened. A mechanical failure occurred during the jump and many of Smedley’s fellow soldiers jumped into the path of an oncoming aircraft and were killed when they hit the plane’s propellers. Smedley relates how his life was spared during the exercise and how the accident caused him to become a chaplain in the Army.
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This article is written in response to the Fall 2004 Volume X, Issue 2 of Recall and contains some corrections. The author was a blimp pilot and was assigned to ZP-1 at Weeksville, NC. Overman discusses the altitude at which blimps can fly, how an airship climbs and descends, the maximum speed of an airship, the ballonets on an airship, and corrections to a particular historical event.
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