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Show LOW: Well, I was- I can't say I knew much about Japan. I just w nt in to amp rak - rode across to Camp Drake on a train - and that's about all I saw of Japan. JAS: Okay, this was in the winter, then. LOW: Yeah, that was in January of ' 52. JAS: Okay. LOW: And then when I was over there in my outfit in, like I said, 8206 Amphibious Training Command, we had some, I guess, three or four paratroopers over there. They were supervising the North Korean Repatriates- that's what they called them anywayand they called them "rocket sons." They were just guerillas. It's on the internet, on the VFW internet, about these guerillas that were actually North Koreans but they was on the south side and they were called, well, we called them, the ones that paratrooped in, I think they called them "rocket sons." They were guerillas. JAS: And why were they coming to the south? LOW: Well, they were going and helping the South Koreans and these paratroopers were training them. And I got invited to up with them. Actually, I rode up on one of those islands off of North Korea where they had their bases. And we finally went out and harassed the North Koreans one night just for the heck of it- that's when you're kind of young and crazy and somebody says, "Let's do something," you don't worry about it. JAS: And where in Korea is this? LOW: Well, Korea, Sockho was about twenty-five miles north of the 38th Parallel on the Japanese Sea. And these islands where I went off ... I can't tell you where they were except, that they were off of North Korea in the Japanese Sea. That's where we went up |
