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(More customer reviews)The book is about the author's first-hand accounts of POW rescue missions in North Korea after the truce of 1953. The premise that Marine reconnaissance teams engage in covert missions behind enemy lines is not new, but the POW/MIA issue for Korea and Vietnam has always touched a raw nerve. Historians and POW/MIA families will be disappointed with the lack of documentation and the author's use of false names, yet Mr. Lowery does provide some clues in terms of timeline, locations, personnel, and his own wounds. It makes sense that such missions would occur in the 1950s, while North Korea was still in disarray from the war of 1950-53 and yet to build the totalitarian police state of the later Cold War. It also makes sense that POWs would be put to use as manual labor, as described in the book. For me the most interesting aspect of Lowery's account is the participation of Koreans, especially North Koreans working with the US and South Korea to provide intelligence and assist the Marines.
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The Untold Experiences of a Navy Corpsman: A US Navy Hospital Corpsman with a US Marine Corps Reconnaissance Patrol Team in the 1950's on covert Korean missions.By:C. Gilbert Lowery--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.
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