Correspondence written by Henry Ed Smith while serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.
Smith enlisted in January 1952 and traveled to Japan and Korea with the 279th Infantry Regiment after completing basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. He was killed in a flash flood of the Inie River on August 18, 1952, just two weeks after arriving in Korea. In his letters Smith describes...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/8916 |