Korea, ORD 52 Company, Eighth Army, near a nameless little. Village
We arrived at the port of Inchon, on the West side of the Korean Peninsula about mid day and it took us the rest of the day to get off the ship and into some barricks. Then, the next morning we got another round of 8 shots to protect us from various diseases. I was assigned to ORD 55 an ammo dump about 80 miles South and a little East of the capital city (Seoul). I had to wait for 2 days to catch a ride to my new assignment. It was a fenced in (8 foot high fence topped with razor wire) compound. A small Village had grown up around outside the main gate and there was a lake just outside the compound from which we drew our water and the people used for bathing and washing their clothes. They would take their clothes and a washboard down to the lake and clean clothes and diapers. It was so dirty they had to really treat the water that we drew from it with a heavy dose of chorine, it was almost undrinkable. Got used to it after a while. ...