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581st Radio Relay Co. in North Korea (1950)
10. Our Second Station Here we are at our second attempt to establish Jade Radio Relay station 2. It is a good shot of my truck as it is loaded completely as is the trailer being pulled. After a couple of years I get very good at backing with a trailer. Two people ride in this 3/4-ton truck and two in the other truck and two in the jeep. Generally the jeep leads and the two trucks follow. Notice the mounds on the other side of the road. Those are graves. The Koreans bury their dead sitting up in the mound. Often it is the only level spot in the hill. Once we located our station on a grave. We pitched a tent over the mound, cut a flat space to use as a shelf for the radios.
This station was also not
successful and we were never able to establish communications with either of
the other stations. One station was in Wonson some 90 miles away and the other
end was at the Chosin Reservoir with the First Marine Division.
So we head off to another hill to try after a few days here.
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