Terrain
Heroes Remember
Terrain
Transcript
Although ingenuity and improvisation can make terrible
weather bearable, nothing but strong will can overcome the most
harrowing of Korean conditions: terrain.
View down to the river from a hillside.
Korea is a series of mountain ranges. If you climb to the top of one, you see five or six more ranges on one side, and five or six more on the other side. It's all mountains. It was hills and hollows, hills and and valleysVideo of the Korean country side.
and mostly hills. Up one hill, down the other, up one hill, down the other. There was so much bombing over there that the trees were almostArtillery fire.
all gone. The mountains had been stripped bare.Tank rolling along the side of the hill.
Very mountainous and very steep. There were ravines and crests . . . These were rough mountains and we had to bring all our equipmentMen tying a rope around trees.
up there.Looking over the valley from the top of a tank.
But in a way, they protected us from being seen or being shot. And at the bottom, there were rice paddies, with water that hadSoldiers walking past a rice patty.
been there for maybe a hundred years. What do you think that smells like? If you were on patrol and you fell into it, it was pretty gross. You couldn't wait to get back to wash up.Description
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- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Duration:
- 1:23
- Person Interviewed:
- War Korean
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Korean War
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