Seventh Infantry Division - Yearbook (South Korea)

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in three different places, continued to lead the charge until the operation was completed. He was awarded the Medal of Honor. In 1951, two others earned this highest honor from their country. Sergeant E. H. Ingram, of the 17th Infantry Regiment, raced headlong into the teeth of two enemy positions, wiping them out with rifle and grenade and routing more than 100 Reds before he fell unconscious from his wounds. In June, PFC Jack Hanson, 31st Infantry, voluntarily remained behind to protect the rear of his platoon during a withdrawal. When the platoon counterattacked they found Hanson's body, a rifle in one hand and a bloody machete in the other, surrounded by 22 dead Commies. This was the heritage we had to live up to when We received orders to return to the line on 27 December, 1952. Two days later on the 29th, we relieved the 2nd U. S. Division on line JAMESTOWN, the MLR. We as- sumed responsibility for the area extending from Ojok- san-ni to a point east of Songghyon in the area west of Chorwon. An estimated 12 enemy battalions supported by 15 battalions of artillery faced the Division along the 12,000 meter front. A few small scale clashes with enemy patrols occurred before the end of the year. In January, the Wearying, gruelling task of patrolling began again. Infantry tactical activity included patrols and raiding parties as far as 3,000 meters in front of the main line. Both reconnaissance and combat patrols were in operation and the combat units employed am- bush tactics on many of their raids. Of the seven patrols. only one was a daylight action and five were conducted by less than company strength with one platoon assault forces. It was during this period that Company E of the 31st conducted a coordinated air-ground raid against the southeast portion of the T-Bone complex. Also, We began to have new respect for the foreign UN forces attached to the 7th. During one patrol, a Colombian Battalion, the only Latin American unit fighting in Korea, boasted three men who, although wounded themselves and under heavy fire, crawled back into enemy territory and returned with Wounded com- rades. During the latter part of the month, a platoon of Ethiopian soldiers, surrounded by Commies, battled their way out of the trap with bayonets and rifle butts, killing 16 Reds before they got back. During their right, fifteen other Kagnews, as they were known, as- saulted a nearby hill and drove off the enemy. The Kagnews proved furious fighters, often charging head- long into enemy positions to take on the Reds in hand- to-hand combat. They were welcome comrades. On 16 January, 1953, the 17th Infantry Regiment which had been conducting a security mission at the United Nations Prisoner of War Camps One and Eight on Koji and Cheju, were relieved and returned to the front Where they underwent two days of retraining and rehabilitation before assignment as Division reserve at Camp Indianhead. An unidentified priest hears the confession of Pvt. John Planck, Ann Arbor, Michigan, who was captured by the Communists in Korea and repatriated under terms of the POW exchange, op- eration LittIe 5witch .