INDEX

Page numbers in italics indicate photographs or maps.

Acheson, Dean

Afghanistan

airmen (U.S.) and propaganda

Aleutian Islands

Allen (replacement)

America. See United States of America

ammunition shortage, Unsan

amphibious landing at Inchon

Anderson (Doctor)

Andersonville (Civil War)

animals, POWs as

Appleman, Roy E. (Lieutenant Colonel)

arrow wound infection incident

Australian bombers

baptism of fire

barracks, WWII

Bataan (Philippines)

battalion, forming the

beer

Black (soldier)

black compound, POWs

Bookbinders (restaurant, PA)

boredom, enemy

born again

bravery

breakout, Unsan

Brewster (USNT)

Brien (First Sergeant)

British units

Bromser, Paul (Lieutenant)

company commander

death march

death of

Pyongyang

38th parallel, pursuit to

Tokyo for Thanksgiving rumor

Unsan

wounded, leaving behind

wounds of

brotherlike bond with crew

Brown, Jim “Old Firepower Brown” (Lieutenant)

Browning automatic rifles (BARs)

buildings, WWII

burial detail

Burma

burp guns (Chinese)

Camel’s Head bridge

Camp 5 “The University of Pyoktong,”

Camp Stoneman (CA)

capitalistic vs. socialistic system

capture and escape

Cassino (Italy)

Castle (Germany)

casualties. See also wounded

Chinese People’s Volunteer Army

North Korean Army

POWs

South Korean Army (KATUSA)

United States Army

Charge of Quarters (CQ)

chemical weapon propaganda

China (Communist). See also Korean War

control of the masses example

expansion desires of

identifying POW camps, refusal

socialistic vs. capitalistic system

Soviet Union (Russia) and

Chinese People’s Volunteer Army. See also Korean War; prisoners of war (POWs); Richardson, William “Bill” (Colonel, U.S., Ret.)

aircraft feared by

airmen (U.S.) and chemical weapon propaganda

burp guns

casualties

corruption of U.S.

cursed by POWs

execution joke of POWs by

lectures of POWs by

night attacks

North Korea vs. (prison control)

“peace-loving people,”

propaganda by

Unsan

Civil War (American)

cockiness of Richardson

cold and POWs

collaborating with enemy, U.S. hearings

Combat Infantryman’s Badge

Communist Party of the U.S.

control, giving up

cornstalk cocoons

corruption of U.S. propaganda

COSCOM (First Corps Support Command)

Costello (Sergeant)

crabs joke

C rations

Daily Worker

dark days of summer

death, invisibility of. See also casualties

death march

Death Valley

defense work during WWII

discipline, life and death

Doyle, Vincent “The Renaissance Man” (Master Sergeant, POW)

Andersonville (Civil War) and

escape plans

“Infantryman’s Troubled Dreams, An,”

last year as POW

medical care for POWs

morgue (hospital)

poems by

propaganda by Chinese

drunk and penny incident

Dunkirk (France)

dying one by one, Unsan

dysentery

Earle Theater (Philadelphia)

E Company

Eighth Army

Eighth Cavalry

82nd Airborne Division

Elliott (POW )

escape plans

escapes, Richardson

Expert Infantryman’s Badge

extension of service duty

Fast, Howard

Fayetteville Observer

fear, thoughts about

Fifth Cavalry

50-in-1 box

57 recoilless rifles

Filipino sergeant

First Cavalry

First Corps Support Command (COSCOM)

First Division of South Korean Army

First Marine Division

First Platoon

505th Airborne Infantry Regiment

Foggia (Italy)

food for POWs

Fort Belvoir (VA)

Fort Bragg (NC)

Fort Devens (MA)

Fort Dix (NJ)

foxholes

Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (movie)

freedom

Freedom Bridge/Freedom Village

gangrene

Gay, Hobart R. (Major General)

G Company

German POWs and Richardson

Giroux, Frederick (First Lieutenant)

death march

death of

Richardson and

Unsan

wounded, leaving behind

“God Bless America” incident

Gomez (soldier)

Gonzalez (POW)

Governors Island (NY)

Graves (POW )

Gray, Walter (Corporal)

Greatest Generation

Greenlowe (company runner)

Hall, Robert (Corporal)

baptism of fire

battalion, forming the

dark days of summer

movement to the Far East

Richardson and

tide, turning

wounds of

hanging man incident, POWs

Happy Days (movie)

Heaggley, William (Private First Class)

baptism of fire

battalion, forming

movement to the Far East

Pusan

Richardson and

38th parallel, pursuit to

tide, turning

Vaillancourt and

Walsh and

wounds of

Herron, Bill “Uncle Bill,”

Hill 307,

Hill 312,

Hill 314,

Hill 401,

Hill 570,

“holding back” POWs after war

“hole” punishment

Hope, Bob

Horn & Hardhart (Philadelphia restaurant)

hospital (morgue)

hubcaps stealing incident

humanity, finding pieces of

humor, keeping sense of

hurry up and wait

hut/houses (Korean)

I Company

Inchon (South Korea)

India

infantry, telling officers about

infantryman’s thousand-yard stare

“Infantryman’s Troubled Dreams, An” (Doyle)

infantry war (last true). See also Korean War

initial point (IP)

International Commission

interrogations about POW experiences

interrogations of POWs

intimidation and Richardson

Italian-American Club (Philadelphia)

Italian Army

Jackson (replacement)

Japan

Johnson (replacement)

Johnson, Harold K. (Lieutenant Colonel)

battalion, forming

dark days of summer

Fifth Cavalry Regiment and

morale builders

movement to Far East

Unsan

Jones (Corporal)

Jones (Private)

Kangnam Mountains (North Korea)

Kapaun, Emil (Chaplain)

KATUSA (Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army)

K Company

Keis (Lieutenant)

kimchi stolen by POWs

King (POW)

King, Charles (Corporal)

Knowles, Frank

Korea, map

Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army (KATUSA)

Korean People’s Army

Korean War. See also Chinese People’s Volunteer Army; map(s); North Korean Army; prisoners of war (POWs); Richardson, William “Bill” (Colonel, U.S., Ret.); South Korean Army; United States of America; Unsan (North Korea)

baptism of fire

beginnings of

crisis level of

dark days of summer

end of

infantry war (last true)

media coverage of

mistakes made in

peace talks

38th parallel

tide, turning

WWII veterans in

Last Frontier, The (Fast)

last year as POWs

latrine accident, POWs

L Company. See also Richardson, William “Bill” (Colonel, U.S., Ret.)

leadership by Richardson POW

lectures by Chinese

lice

lightning rods (television antennas)

Mac (Corporal)

MacArthur, Douglas (General)

magazines, Vaillancourt’s friend

mallet and teacher incidence

Mampo

Manchuria

Manila

manzai (welcome)

Mao Tse-tung

map(s)

Bowling Alley Pusan perimeter

Korea

Pyongyang

Remnants of 3rd Battalion, Unsan

stolen by Richardson

38th parallel

Unsan

Martin (Sergeant)

master sergeants

Maurer, Kevin

Mayer (Sergeant)

Mayo, Walt (First Lieutenant)

McAbee, Filmore (Captain)

baptism of fire

battalion, forming

dark days of summer

last battle, gallant story of

movement to Far East

POW

tide, turning

McClain (Captain)

McGreevy (soldier)

McKee (replacement)

McMahon, Joe

media coverage of Korean War

medical care for POWs

Merrill’s Marauders

M-15 sights

M4A3 Sherman tanks

MiG Alley

Miller, Elmer (Sergeant)

Miller, Herbert “Pappy” (Sergeant)

millet for food, POWs

Million Dollar Pier (NJ)

mind as key to survival

missing in action status

mistakes, Korean War

mistreatment of POWs by POWs

“mobile defense” strategy of Walker

M-1 rifles

morale builders, POWs

morgue (hospital)

movement to the Far East

M-7 grenade launchers

M-24 tanks

Murphy (Sergeant)

Naktong River

Naples (Italy)

Nazi Germany

New York Yankees

night attacks by

Chinese People’s Volunteer Army

North Korean Army

night compass course

nightmares, Richardson

night training exercise

Normandy invasion

North Africa

North Atlantic Division of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

North Korean Army. See also Korean War; prisoners of war (POWs); Richardson, William “Bill” (Colonel, U.S., Ret.)

boots of POWs stolen by

casualties

Chinese vs. (prison control)

decimation of

fanaticism of

followers vs. leaders

money

night attacks by

slaughtering of civilians by

South Korean abuse of soldier

surrendering by

T-34 Russian tanks

wounded, taking weapons from

occupation duty, U.S. Army

Officer Candidate Test

Officers Candidate School

O’Keefe (Sergeant)

Okinawa (Japan)

one more night decision, Unsan

“On the Banks of the Wabash Far Away,”

“On Top of Old Smoky,”

pagoda situation

Palmer, Charles Day (Brigadier General)

Panmunjom (Korea)

“Peace Olympics” (Pyoktong)

peace talks

Peterson, Phil (First Lieutenant)

Philadelphia Inquirer

Philadelphia memories as POW

Philadelphia Phillies

photograph (half) of Richardson and Claire

physical condition of POWs

Pinantok Mountains (North Korea)

pneumonia

Pope (U.S. troop transport)

“post” command

prisoners of war (POWs). See also Chinese People’s Volunteer Army; Doyle, Vincent “The Renaissance Man” (Master Sergeant, POW); Korean War; North Korean Army; Richardson, William “Bill” (Colonel, U.S., Ret.), POW; Smoak (Sergeant First Class, POW)

animals, POWs as

boots, uses for

boots stolen by North Koreans

capture and escape

Catholic nuns as

cleaning up

clothing, deteriorated

cornstalk cocoons

cursing at Chinese by

deaths of

Death Valley

dogfights watched by

escape plans

execution joke by Chinese

freedom

“God Bless America” incident

hanging man incident

“holding back” after war

“hole” punishment

home remedies

interrogations

last year as

latrine accident

mistreatment of POWs by POWs

morale builders

physical condition of

quitting

rice melee incident

river escape plans

sabotage by

telephone wire stolen by

timber accident

trench foot

wounded

prisons

air raids and

Andersonville (Civil War) and

athletic equipment for

baseball playing at

black compound at

burial detail at

Camp 5 “The University of Pyoktong,”

Chinese vs. North Korean control

civilians living near

cold and

conditions

cookhouse duty

daylight, transferring POWs in

death march

dysentery at

food

gangrene at

germ warfare scare

guards

hut/houses (Korean)

Korean civilians and

lectures by Chinese

lice at

medical care at

morgue (hospital)

pneumonia at

propaganda by Chinese

Pyoktong

reading materials at

rewards by Chinese

sergeants group at

socialistic vs. capitalistic system

water

work crews

Project Delta in Vietnam

propaganda by Chinese

public reaction to soldiers

pursuit to the 38th parallel

Pusan (South Korea)

Pyle, Ernie

Pyoktong (North Korea)

Pyongtaek (South Korea)

Pyongyang (North Korea)

quitting

radios, condition of

replacements

revenge, killing as

rice melee incident, POWs

rice paddies

Richardson, Robert (Lieutenant)

Richardson, William “Bill” (Colonel, U.S., Ret.). See also Bromser, Paul (Lieutenant); Giroux, Frederick (First Lieutenant); Hall, Robert (Corporal); Heaggley, William (Private First Class); Johnson, Harold K. (Lieutenant Colonel); Korean War; McAbee, Filmore (Captain); prisoners of war (POWs); prisons; Roberts, Gordon (Sergeant First Class); Unsan (North Korea); Vaillancourt, Albert (Sergeant First Class); Walsh, James (Corporal)

ammunition risk by

battalion, forming the

battle drills

career after Korean War

Charge of Quarters (CQ)

Chinese heard near Camel’s Head bridge

Chinese wounded, helping

C rations

57 recoilless rifles

First Corps Support Command (COSCOM)

foxholes

German POWs and

infantry, telling officers about

Korean refugees and

magazines for Vaillancourt’s friend

memorial service and

“mobile defense” strategy of Walker

movement to the Far East

night compass course

night training exercise

occupation duty, U.S. Army

Officers Candidate School

pagoda situation and

Palmer and

Project Delta in Vietnam

promotions of

Pusan

Pyongyang

replacements and

safeties-on lesson

section leader

soldiers reaching out to

Special Forces and

“stand or die” order of Walker

sumps

survival, evasion, resistance, and escape (SERE) and

Thanksgiving in Tokyo

truck rescue

visiting families of deceased

weapons and

welcome home for

World Series (1950)

wounded (leaving), decision

wounded Americans and

wounds of

Richardson, William “Bill” (Colonel, U.S., Ret.), family

Bill Herron “Uncle Bill,”

Cathy (Bill’s father’s wife)

children of

Claire (Bill’s wife)

Dottie (Bill’s sister)

father

Frank Richardson (Bill’s uncle)

Jean “Mop Top” (Bill’s sister)

John (Bill’s brother)

mother

thinking of as POW

Tom (Bill’s brother)

USO European trip by father

Richardson, William “Bill” (Colonel, U.S., Ret.), personal

adrenaline and

arrow wound infection incident

athleticism of

background of

beer and

boredom, enemy

bravery

brotherlike bond with crew

cinnamon rolls and coffee banquet

cleaning up

cockiness of

death, invisibility of

defense work at factory

discharge from U.S. Army

discipline, life and death

drunk and penny incident

education of

entertainment background

extension of service duty

fear, thoughts about

hubcaps stealing incident

leg shaking

letters to home

lightning rods (television antennas)

mallet and teacher incidence

nightmares

Philadelphia cheesecake and

revenge, killing as

rice paddies and

Rose (girlfriend)

soldier vs. student

time, strange thing in combat

war, experience of

whorehouse incident

Richardson, William “Bill” (Colonel, U.S., Ret.), POW. See also Doyle, Vincent “The Renaissance Man” (Master Sergeant, POW); prisoners of war (POWs); prisons; Smoak (Sergeant First Class, POW)

born again

calmness of

control, giving up

crabs joke

escapes by

family, thinking of

humanity, finding pieces of

humor, keeping sense of

interrogations about experiences as

intimidation and

kimchi stolen by

leadership by

map stolen by

mind as key to survival

missing in action status

onions stolen by

Philadelphia memories

photograph (half) of Claire

sleep deprivation

suffering, part of human experience

sunshine and

survival mode

tooth broken, corn

torture of

walking recovery by

Roberts, Gordon (Sergeant First Class)

baptism of fire

battalion, forming

death of

movement to Far East

POW

Richardson and

Rock of Gibraltar

Russia. See Soviet Union

sabotage by POWs

safeties-on lesson

San Francisco Airfield

Sea of Japan

Second Armored Division

Second Battalion

Second Platoon

Seoul (South Korea)

SERE (survival, evasion, resistance, and escape)

sergeants group, POWs

Seventh Cavalry Regiment

Seventh Division

shui (water)

Siegfried Line

Silver Stars

sleep deprivation

Smoak (Sergeant First Class, POW)

Andersonville (Civil War) and

death of

escape plans

morgue (hospital)

propaganda by Chinese

Richardson and

wounds of

soldier vs. student

South Korean Army. See also Korean War

Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army (KATUSA)

North Korean soldier abused by

Taegu

Soviet Union (Russia)

artillery doctrine of

Communist China and

expansion desires

T-34 tanks

Spartacus (Fast)

Special Forces

St. Lo (France)

“stand or die” order of Walker

Strait of Gibraltar

suffering, part of human experience

Sunnyside Up (movie)

sunshine and Richardson

survival, evasion, resistance, and escape (SERE)

survival mode as POW

Suwon (South Korea)

T-34 Russian tanks

Tabu-Dong

Taedong River

Taegu (South Korea)

Taegu Road

“tagging” soldiers by medics

tankers

Taylor (soldier)

telephone wire stolen by POWs

“Tennessee Waltz, The,”

Thanksgiving in Tokyo

Third Battalion, Eighth Cavalry

Third Battalion, Seventh Regiment, Third Division

Third Platoon

38th parallel

Thirty-fifth Infantry Regiment

“This is the Infantry” (film)

364th Infantry Regiment

tide, turning

timber accident, POWs

time, strange thing in combat

timelines. See map(s)

Tokyo (Japan)

Tony (KATUSA)

tooth broken, corn

torture of Richardson as POW

trapped, Unsan

trench foot

Truman, Harry S. (President). See also Korean War; United States of America

Communism in Korea and

Inchon invasion and

propaganda by Chinese

U.N. Security Council

United States Army. See also Korean War; Richardson, William “Bill” (Colonel, U.S., Ret.)

casualties

Combat Infantryman’s Badge

Expert Infantryman’s Badge

hurry up and wait

Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army (KATUSA)

M-24 tanks

reduction after World War II,

replacements

United States of America. See also Korean War; Richardson, William “Bill” (Colonel, U.S., Ret.); Truman, Harry S. (President); World War II

airmen and propaganda

capitalistic vs. socialistic system

Civil War

collaborating with enemy, hearings

Communist Party of the

corruption, propaganda

Korea, lack of interest

public reaction to soldiers

Unsan (North Korea). See also Korean War; prisoners of war (POWs); Richardson, William “Bill” (Colonel, U.S., Ret.)

ammunition shortage

Australian bombers

breakout

Camel’s Head bridge

Chinese at

dying one by one

maps

night attacks

one more night, decision

“on your own,”

trapped

trucks (fired up)

wounded, leaving behind

Vaillancourt, Albert (Sergeant First Class)

baptism of fire

battalion, forming

dark days of summer

death of

Heaggley and

magazines for friend

missing

POW

Pusan

replacements and

Richardson and

Vallejo (CA)

Vietnam, Project Delta

visiting families of deceased

Walker, Walton H. (Lieutenant General)

walking recovery by Richardson

Walsh, James (Corporal)

baptism of fire

battalion, forming

Camel’s Head bridge

dark days of summer

death of

dying one by one

Heaggley and

Korean refugees and

memorial service

movement to Far East

Pusan

Richardson and

Thanksgiving in Tokyo

38th parallel, pursuit to

tide, turning

Unsan

war, experience of

water for POWs

weapons and Richardson

welcome home for Richardson

White-Haired Girl, The (Chinese show)

white phosphorous (Willie Peter)

whorehouse incident

Winn (Lieutenant)

Witt (soldier)

Wollack (Sergeant)

work crews, POWs

World Series (1950), listening to

World War II

barracks

Camp Stoneman (CA)

defense work during

Japan and

reduction of Army after

“This is the Infantry” (film)

trains

veterans in Korean War

wounded. See also casualties

crying for their mothers

helping Chinese by Richardson

impact on Richardson

leaving behind, POWs

leaving behind, Unsan

POWs

Wray, Charles (POW )

Yale & Towne (Philadelphia)

Yalu River

Yokohama ( Japan)