Mr. White recalls his first weeks in Korean waters.
Quick Response By R.C.N.
North Korea invaded South Korea in June 1950. Within a week of that invasion, three destroyers of the Royal Canadian Navy sailed from the West Coast for Korean waters.
Korea's No Man's Land
Mr. Niles describes patrolling in No-Man’s Land, the skill of the North Korean foe, and tempting fate.
Twenty-eight of us went back.
Dr. Vanner provides a retrospective on the positive results of liberating South Korea.
The skin was gone
Dr. Vanner discusses the destructive impacts of the A-bomb on Hiroshima.
They still maintained military discipline
Dr. Vanner talks about POWs returning to the exchange area, as well as a unique Canadian survival skill.
We didn't close the wounds
Dr. Vanner discusses in detail the treatment of penetrating wounds.
People were in a rather bad state
Dr. Vanner describes his arrival in Korea, and his general impressions of the country.
A red cross symbol on the ground
Dr. Vanner talks about helicopter evacuation, triage and routing patients for appropriate treatment.
We improvised
Dr. Vanner discusses field hospitals in general and differentiates the three levels of hospitalization.
Food to Child Amputees
Mr. Chaisson recalls giving away his food to child amputees in Inchon, and realizing how much harder life was for people there, than people in Canada.
Joining the Army
Mr. Rees discusses the day that he and his buddy joined the Canadian Forces.