Outpost Kelly : a tanker's story /

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Author / Creator:Siewert, Jack R., 1924-
Imprint:Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2006.
Description:1 online resource (xviii, 156 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Series:Fire ant books
Fire ant books.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11196106
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ISBN:9780817382278
0817382275
9780817353414
0817353410
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-156).
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Summary:War at its most personal and lethal during the last four days of July 1952. In the second year of the Korean War, Jack Siewert commanded a platoon of five M-46 tanks. Temporarily assigned to provide fire support for an infantry battalion on the front, he eventually found himself in the midst of intense fighting for a relatively unknown and unimportant hill, code named Outpost Kelly. Those four days of battle against Chinese forces form the heart of this memoir, which is unique in its focus on the hill fighting that dominated two thirds of the Korean War. Trained to take advantage of his tanks &
Other form:Print version: Siewert, Jack R., 1924- Outpost Kelly. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2006 9780817353414 0817353410