Accordion War: Korea 1951 - Life and Death in a Marine Rifle Company - Brossura

Hughes, Charles

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1412084377 ISBN 13: 9781412084376

Casa editrice: Trafford Publishing, 2006

Riassunto

Accordion War: Korea 1951: the graphic first-person account of a hospital corpsman's experiences in a Marine rifle company during the most violent blitzkrieg phase, the first third of the three-year Korean War.

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Charles Hughes spent four years in the U.S. Navy enlisting in 1948 at the age of seventeen. During the closing weeks of 1950 while the 1st Marine Division was surrounded and fighting their way out of the Chinese Communist trap at the frozen Chosin Reservoir, he and his friend Ollie Langston volunteered for the Fleet Marine Force to serve as hospital corpsmen in a Marine rifle company. He had missed World War II and wanted to find out what combat was like. Accordion War is the story of his experience. Today Hughes is professor emeritus of English at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. He graduated with a BA in political science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1957 and for the next nine years worked in communication intelligence for the National Security Agency at Ft. Meade, Maryland, and later the Air Force Security Service as a cryptanalyst (Russian), instructor of cryptanalysis, technical writer (cryptanalysis), technical editor, and finally as the Chief of the Editing and Publications Branch of the USAFSS School at Goodfellow AFB, San Angelo, Texas. He left that position in 1966 to attend graduate school at Texas Tech University at Lubbock where he received an MA (1968) and a PhD (1971) in literature and linguistics after which he was hired by Henderson State where he taught up to and after his retirement in 1996, serving for five of those years as Chairman of the English and Foreign Languages Department.

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• Editore: Trafford Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1412084377
• ISBN 13: 9781412084376
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 422