In the Shadow of the Greatest Generation: The Americans Who Fought the Korean War
In the Shadow of the Greatest Generation: The Americans Who Fought the Korean War
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This book focuses on the Americans who served in the Korean War from June 1950 to July 1953. More specifically, it examines the Korean War veterans' upbringing, military training, and wartime experiences as well as attitudes and post-Korea lives. Unlike their older brothers and cousins who served in World War II and who were welcomed home with ticker-tape parades and bands, Korean War veterans returned to America without much fanfare. Returning veterans could only wonder why they had been seemingly forgotten by the public. This book attempts to give a face to those who served in the Korean War and to understand the impact that this war had on veterans and on the world to which they returned. It discusses the various circumstances compelling Americans to accept military service, their decision to join the armed forces in the early 1950s, their experiences in the battlefields of the Korean Peninsula, and the experiences of American prisoners of war captured by the North Koreans and Chinese. It also considers the lives of women and African Americans in the war zone and what happened to Korean War veterans once they returned to the home front.
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