Veterans' Voices: Korea
Series produced by Ampers
Memories and stories from Minnesota Korea War Veterans
Memories and stories from Minnesota Korea War Veterans
36 Pieces
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Paratrooper Paul Overgaard shares his experience jumping out of planes into enemy territory during the Korean War. Kevyn Burger talks with the Vet...
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 25:14
The government of South Korea has invited many Korean War Veterans to return and visit their country, to see how it is doing now, decades later, an...
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 16:22
Veteran Jack Haugen explains why he re-enlisted after serving in World War II and served in the army again in the Korean War. Here’s Kevyn Burger w...
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 17:51
During the Korean War, some soldiers were selected to be dog handlers. Reporter Kevyn Burger shares the story of Veteran Roger Davis, age 92, about...
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 15:56
Service in the Korean War spanned from June 25th, 1950, to January 31st, 1955.
Kevyn Burger talks with Veterans about the Korean Era and who fough...
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 20:08
Kevyn Burger visits with members of a local Korean War Veterans group that has been meeting regularly for decades. Chapter 1 grew from originally 1...
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 16:22
The Korean War was marked by many brutal battles. One highly decorated Minnesota soldier was injured in combat, patched up and then returned to the...
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 02:00
When the Korean War began, the expectation was that the US involvement would be short and decisive. But the war dragged on far longer than the publ...
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 02:00
The people of South Korea have long expressed gratitude to the American troops who fought for their freedom during the Korean War. The current gove...
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 02:00
Peter Razor was abandoned as a baby and became a ward of the state, raised in Minnesota institutions. After being drafted into the Army and station...
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 02:00
During the Korean era, the Army recruited a team of Midwestern farm boys who were comfortable with animals and livestock. They were trained to work...
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 02:00
Now in their eighties and nineties, veterans of the Korean War are now more than sixty years away from their military service. One veteran said tha...
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 02:00
By the time the Army sent Henry Dabruzzi to South Korea, an armistice ending the years of shooting had been signed. The Minnesotan was assigned to ...
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 02:00
The Korean War took a tragic toll, with a high number of injuries and casualties and soldiers who survived battles that were horror-filled. At the ...
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 02:00
When Roy Charon left his hometown of Cloquet to serve in the Air Force, he imagined that he would serve in Korea. Instead, he was shipped to an isl...
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 02:00
For many veterans who served in Korea, the war is remembered by the days, weeks and months that they counted down as they waited to come home. Toda...
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 02:00
Those who entered military service during the Korean War had been children during World War 2, and wartime shaped their youth. Many of them grew up...
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 02:00
Roger Gardin enlisted in the Navy and served aboard the USS Laffey, a legendary destroyer that survived several notable battles in World War 2 and ...
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 02:00
The men and women who fought in the Korean War were born when many farms still relied on horses. They have been eyewitnesses to massive societal ch...
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 02:00
The US Navy played a key role in the Korean War. Korea is situated on a peninsula, so control of the seas was essential. In today’s Veterans Voices...
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 02:00
