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PICTURES TAKEN IN THE KWANDARI VALLEY 19 MILES NORTH OF THE 38TH - KOREA - 1951
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MY BIOGRAPHY:
I was born in Pacific Junction, Iowa on August 20, 1929. I spent the first 18 years of my life there. I graduated from Pacific Junction High School on May 16, 1948. On June 7, 1948 I walked away from Pacific Junction with three dollars in my pocket which my Aunt Agnes had given to me. I joined the Army and was sent to Fort Knox, Kentucky for my basic training. After basic training, I went to Quartermaster School. Upon finishing Quartermaster school, I was ordered to Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, where I spent the next three years. During my three years at Fort Monmouth, I met and Married, Rita Anne Geroni from Red Bank, New Jersey.
In 1951, I was sent to Korea. By that time, I had obtained the rank Of Staff Sergeant, and was assigned to duty as a Track & Wheel Vehicle Repair Foreman. While in Korea, my Wife Rita, gave birth to our first child, Patricia Ann Harris.
Leaving Korea, I was assigned to Tokyo Ordinance Depot as an Inspector of rebuilt military materiel. My Wife & Child joined me in Tokyo, and we lived in a apartment complex named Lincoln Center, two blocks from the Capital building in downtown Tokyo for the next two years.
Upon returning to the United States in March 1954, I was assigned to Fort Dix, New Jersey. At Fort Dix, I managed an NCO Club until 1956, when I received orders sending me back to Korea, where I was assigned to the 2nd Battle Group 12th Calvary Division as a Supply Sergeant. However, a new NCO club was built and I was assigned to manage it until I received orders in 1958 sending me to Wisconsin as an Infantry Advisor to the 32nd National Guard Division. In Wisconsin we lived in Chippawa Falls, however, my office was in Eau Claire. During this tour of duty, my Son Webb Jr. was born.
In 1960 the 32nd National Guard Division was activated and sent to Fort Lewis, Washington. I accompanied them to Fort Lewis, but was assigned as a Platoon Sergeant in the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division. In 1963, I received orders assigning me to the 24th Infantry Division in Augsburg, Germany, There I served as a Platoon Sergeant until 1966, also during this tour of duty, my second daughter Tracie Lynn was born. Immediately after Tracie was born. I received orders sending me to Logan, Utah as an ROTC Instructor at Logan Senior High School. This turned out to be the most rewarding assignment of my military career. I truly enjoyed working with the High School students. They were very dedicated and took pride in whatever they did. During this tour of duty, I also attended school to become proficient in Auto Mechanics.
On January 1969, I retired after 21 years of service and moved to Casselberry, Florida, which is really a suburb of Orlando. During the next 23 years I tried my hand at various occupations, I obtained a teachers certificate for Auto Mechanics so I was able to teach Vocational Arts in the Florida school system. I leased two service stations, one in Winter Park, Florida and one in Orlando, and tried my hand at service station management. When Walt Disney decided to build a theme park in Orange County Florida, I obtained a union card, and worked helping to build Disney World as a welder for the Disney Construction Company. After the park opened, I went to work as a Shop Foreman in a Goodyear Tire Store for the next 5 years. I grew tired of working for Goodyear and decided to go to the University Of Central Florida and study the practices and principles of Real Estate Law, where upon I obtained a Real Estate License and for the next 15 years, I brokered Real Estate. In 1992, I completely retired to the Golf Course.
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1951 - Korea - A Greek Cpl. Lucas. SFC. Webb, & myself Sgt. Harris
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Korean Winter 1951
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Korea in 1951 was not a very nice place to be. It was so cold in the winter that the GI’s called it “Frozen Chosin”, I guess that was its name before it became “Korea”. All I saw there were mountains, valleys, rivers, and of course what seemed like a million Chinese. As you can see from some of the pictures, I carried a 12 guage shotgun and a 45 caliber pistol. Of course my M-1 Garand 30-06 rifle was never out of my reach. I did return to Korea in 1956 for another year, and it seemed nothing had changed, with the exception that there were no longer a million Chinese.
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Invisible Dividing line between North & South Korea
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Republic Of Korea Soldier that didn't make it.
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Government Issued ATV 1951. A Converible.
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The Enemy Could see you here, so we created smoke to cross the Valley.
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M38 Tank Taking Out A Enemy Bunker
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