Firefight at Yechon: Courage and Racism in the Korean War, is an autobiography by Charles M. Bussey.
Bussey joined the Tuskegee Airmen, an all-black air unit, which protected Allied bombers on missions over Europe during World War II in over North Africa, Italy and finally Germany.
Bussey later served as an Army officer in the Korean war.
On July 20, 1950, Bussey was returning to his 77th Engineer Combat Company with mail from the states for one ...
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Firefight at Yechon: Courage and Racism in the Korean War, is an autobiography by Charles M. Bussey.
Bussey joined the Tuskegee Airmen, an all-black air unit, which protected Allied bombers on missions over Europe during World War II in over North Africa, Italy and finally Germany.
Bussey later served as an Army officer in the Korean war.
On July 20, 1950, Bussey was returning to his 77th Engineer Combat Company with mail from the states for one of his platoons, when he came across a dozen "lollygagagging" (resting) army truck drivers. Bussey heard fighting in the town ahead, in which Bassey states his company was supposed to provide back up support. He climbed a nearby hill. A kilometer to the rear of the vehicle column he spotted a large body of white-clad Koreans coming toward them.
Bussey ordered the drivers to unload the two machine guns and ammunition in their trucks and drag them to the top of the hill.
The enemy unit was destroyed. Bassey's group was given credit for killing...
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