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Firefight at Yechon: Courage and Racism in the Korean War, is an autobiography by Charles M. Bussey.Bussey joined the Tuskegee Airmen, an all-black air unit, which protected Allied bombers on missions over Europe during World War II in over North Read More..

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Description	Firefight at Yechon: Courage and Racism in the Korean War, is an autobiography by Charles M. Bussey.Bussey joined the Tuskegee Airmen, an all-black air unit, which protected Allied bombers on missions over Europe during World War II in over North Africa, Italy and finally Germany.Bussey later served as an Army officer in the Korean war.On July 20, 1950, Bussey was returning to his 77th Engineer Combat Company with mail from the states for one of his platoons, when he came across a dozen "lollygagagging" (resting) army truck drivers. Bussey heard fighting in the town ahead, in which Bassey states his company was supposed to provide back up support. He climbed a nearby hill. A kilometer to the rear of the vehicle column he spotted a large body of white-clad Koreans coming toward them. p. 100-102 p. 353Bussey ordered the drivers to unload the two machine guns and ammunition in their trucks and drag them to the top of the hill.The enemy unit was destroyed. Bussey's group was given credit for killing 258 enemy soldiers in the battle. A day after United States forces occupied Yechon, an Associated Press reporter filed a story about the entire battle and said it was "the first sizable ground victory in the Korean war".Bussey stated that he was denied the Medal of Honor in the battle because a racist white officer, Lt. Col. John T. Corley, felt the nation's highest medal for valor should only be awarded to a black man posthumously.Thirty nine years after the conflict, Bussey could not pinpoint the mass grave site of the dead North Korean soldiers and local civilians could not recall anything about the incident.Astor, p. 357The Washington Post states that "prejudiced Army historians later insisted, against the evidence...[the Battle of Yechon]...never really happened".
Description	Firefight at Yechon: Courage and Racism in the Korean War, is an autobiography by Charles M. Bussey.Bussey joined the Tuskegee Airmen, an all-black air unit, which protected Allied bombers on missions over Europe during World War II in over North Africa, Italy and finally Germany.Bussey later served as an Army officer in the Korean war.On July 20, 1950, Bussey was returning to his 77th Engineer Combat Company with mail from the states for one of his platoons, when he came across a dozen "lollygagagging" (resting) army truck drivers. Bussey heard fighting in the town ahead, in which Bassey states his company was supposed to provide back up support. He climbed a nearby hill. A kilometer to the rear of the vehicle column he spotted a large body of white-clad Koreans coming toward them. p. 100-102 p. 353Bussey ordered the drivers to unload the two machine guns and ammunition in their trucks and drag them to the top of the hill.The enemy unit was destroyed. Bussey's group was given credit for killing 258 enemy soldiers in the battle. A day after United States forces occupied Yechon, an Associated Press reporter filed a story about the entire battle and said it was "the first sizable ground victory in the Korean war".Bussey stated that he was denied the Medal of Honor in the battle because a racist white officer, Lt. Col. John T. Corley, felt the nation's highest medal for valor should only be awarded to a black man posthumously.Thirty nine years after the conflict, Bussey could not pinpoint the mass grave site of the dead North Korean soldiers and local civilians could not recall anything about the incident.Astor, p. 357The Washington Post states that "prejudiced Army historians later insisted, against the evidence...[the Battle of Yechon]...never really happened".

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Name	Firefight at Yechon: Courage and Racism in the Korean War
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Authors	Charles M. Bussey
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Genre	Non-fiction
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Language	English
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Country	United States
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Pages	264
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Media_type	Paperback
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Isbn	0-8032-6201-9
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Oclc	48399158
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Publisher	University of Nebraska Press
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Pub_date	2004
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Release_date	2004
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