Where the Pontoon bridge was, and they administered to me. I think it was the Hana river, but I don’t know. They took me back to an aid’s station first which was back across this river. Yes, and then somewhere in that area I don’t know the exact date or exact place I have no idea.īC: I drove back in and that put me on a Jeep and trucks and things of that nature. Me: So, the 1 stof June of ’51 and you were injured.īC: Yes. We rode a train a ways and then we rode a ammo train and up until we got up to where the front was and I think we finished our journey there on a truck until we got to where Arora was.īC: Yes, I had a trip flare go off in my hand and I was sitting on a mine or a flare and it exploded and that was up there when we were taking the rounds and taking the prisoners and yes, I got hurt there and that is when I got sent back. They were running for the communist and it was really a lot of mud the mud and snow and they would drive a truck around in the morning and pick up the people that died during the night, the civilians would, and so that was really a joke to me being a young kid and then we left from Pusan and we started North, and I never knew where I was for the rest of the time. All the people where there, people that had everything they owned living in tin huts, grass huts or just anything they could live in. Of course, the Pusan perimeter we hadn’t gotten our way out of that, yet I don’t believe at that time. I was really in for an eye opener when we got there. Then in the end of February of ’51 we went over to Korea.īC: You know what I sure don’t. I went to Camp Pennington and in San Diego I did boot camp and then artillery training in Camp Delmar up in Pennington. Then I went back down to join the Marines and that was on June the 20 ththe day Korea was invaded, and they told all of us “Don’t do this if you wanna stay here because we’re going to Korea.” Of course, I’ve never heard of it before, so I just I was ready to go somewhere because when you young like that you’re tired of home and so within two weeks we were gone. Then I go out and then after high school I went to work for the electric company and I worked there for about six months or more. We went to California for a week I believe we spent a week or two weeks in California and then after that, that would put it in about 1948 I guess. Me: So, tell me about your life during the reserves.īC: Well, when I joined the reserves we went to meetings once a month I believe or every two weeks something like that. I joined the reserves when I was 17 cause you had to have your parents sign and they wouldn’t sign for me to go into the Marines, so I just signed for the reserves and within a year and a half they called us. First was Florence Elementary school and that’s in Keller, Texas and Keller High School.īC: After that I went to work for the electric company reading light meters. BC: My name is Bob Couch and I live about a mile from where I was born and from where I lived when I got in the Marine corp.īC: Keller, Texas.
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