1 50 2 https://omeka-test.library.appstate.edu/files/original/d39503147dcd02e0b5d5af5a60ec8377.pdf fdc07aab56631b4e17745e4304ac1520 PDF Text Text Name: Branch: Years Served: Conflicts: Date of Interview: Samuel McNeill U.S. Army 1952-1954 Korean War October 14, 2012 Jackson Sams: Today is October the 14th and we are interviewing Sam McNeill in his home in Candor North Carolina. Sam can you...Sorry this is for a history class at Appalachian State University and my name is Jackson Sams. Sam can you go ahead and tell me your birth date? McNeill: 7-11-31 Jackson Sams: Ok and other people attending are Coy McNeill, Sam's son and my stepfather. Sam can you go ahead and tell me the war and branch you served in. McNeill: I served in the army in Korea and I was in the quarter master. I was in the service center there, service center number two. We serviced textile goods for the second and third division and the fifth regimental combat team, and I believe there’s some other Ethiopian outfit there as well as a Turkish outfit there that we issued supplies to. like I said it was a quarter masters center textile mostly clothing, armored vests, tents, cots, things like that soldiers used over in Korea and if item brought in could be repaired we repaired it like clothing or armored vest or whatever if it couldn’t be repaired we issue them a new one. a new whatever and also showers there where loads of soldiers would come in from the line and they would shower and they had new they issue them new clothes there they leave there’s and issue them clean clothes to leave in and they'd do that every so often and we had in our compound we had a tailor shop an armor vest shop, tent shop, they had stove shop to repair or issue new stove small or large ones and machines shop to repair anything that the machine shop could repair, small items. and there i stayed there for 16 months took a break and went to Japan take a weekend sometimes and go down to Seoul or Dong Won Po, where our headquarters was. Sams: Ok McNeill: and (...) what was pretty much it for 16 months Sams: Wow that seems like quite a job. Do you remember your rank while you while you were in Korea? McNeill: I was a corporal Sams: A corporal ok McNeill: yeah 1 �Sams: And now what was where was the exact place you served? McNeill: Its right at the center of right back of the 38th parallel we had a service center to the left of us number one we were number 2 in the center and there was another number three over on the mountainous side (...) where you have the Sea of Japan coming in over there and that seas between I guess that’s what you call the sea between Korea and Japan. Sams: Ok, now when you were in Korea, I know Coy has told me stories but can you tell me exactly why you went were you enlisted or did you join yourself? McNeill: I was drafted. Sams: So you were drafted? McNeill: I was drafted, I didn’t join, no. Sams: ok McNeill: I went in in the fall of 52' and got out of in the fall of 54' and (...) seemed like a more than 16 months but that’s what it was over there not counting going coming. (...) Sams: Now while you when you were drafted where were you living at the time? McNeill: In Moore County in Eagle Springs in Moore County [North Carolina]. And I went to Raleigh to be examined when I was called I was called back to Raleigh again. You want me to keep on talking? Sams: Sure as much as you want McNeill: went from Raleigh to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, stayed there a week while they outfitted us with clothes. Then sent us up highway number one again on up through Raleigh to Virginia we did a train and and (...) I’m having a blank... Sams: That’s ok take your time McNeill: thought I never would. Fort Lee, Virginia which is near, back this side of Richmond right out from what is that town there... can’t pull it out. Sams: Its fine you don’t... McNeill: anyway its Fort Lee, Virginia we stayed there. We took basic and I don’t remember exactly how many weeks but after basic training we stayed there and just moved on over to the quarter master school... were we I was in the class studying textile repair. It was just a class room filled with desks and sewing machines we learned to use the sewing machine to repair shirts and pants things of that nature and (...) when I got to Korea I didn’t do any of that they had Koreans civilians to do the repair work. I was just shop foreman I was over the shop I received and issued 2 �the armored vests was my shop and that’s what I did the whole time I was there. they had more than armor vests they had the whole armor suit for the engineers that worked in mine fields and things like that and the war they called a truce three months after I was there. They started turning a lot of vests in and we had a pile as long as from here to that building. 100 foot and highest piles of armor vests and we had to go through and grade them and save the good ones and destroy the ones that wasn’t repairable and that took a long time after they signed the truce. Coy McNeill: Didn’t you find body parts in some of those? McNeill: yeah we had found body parts in some of those armor suits Sams: Wow. McNeill: Where the engineers use to set mine fields and take up mine fields you could occasionally find something in there you didn’t want to see... but... after a while before I come home we just practically without anything to do. it just kinda when the call the truce we just mostly processed and turned in things and packaged them and get ready to send them to somewhere else or back here. Sams: Now when they called the truce sorry how many months did you say you were in Korea? McNeill: I was there 16 but only three months while the fighting was going on Sams: ok alright. McNeill: It was a relief for it to stop you could sleep better you didn’t hear boom boom all night long. Sams: I bet that was good McNeill: And... Sams: Can you tell me some of the more memorable experiences you had? Maybe a funny story or something that really stands out in your mind? McNeill: the first week there before I was assigned to the armored vest shop. you didn’t have anything to do they'd make you a shotgun guard on a truck that’s going to Dong Yong Po and getting ammunition and hauling it across the 38th parallel and they'd have what you call a shotgun you did that the first week you were there and then after you got your job like I did in the armored vest shop I didn’t have to do that anymore that was the experiences that the roads were puffy dust and it strangle you just be an inch thick in dust and stop along the way and snack something it couldn’t get to a meal but you'd carry along something like I’m trying to think packages we had then were K rations and C rations we would take and fix a drink or get crackers and food out of a can. 3 �Sams: And is that what you ate a lot of times? McNeill: that’s the first week I ate a lot of C rations. Sams: How were those? McNeill: they'd keep you alive and but then there wasn’t very tasty they weren’t good. And but they were keep you going for longer than a week if you had to... I don’t know or if I’m suppose to say this or not but when I got over there all the equipment they had was old World War Two trucks ‘40 and ’41, ‘42 models and I was dumb founded I couldn’t believe what I was seeing and we had alternators to make our electricity and they were old 4 cylinder—same engine as in a jeep—old flat headed mackin motors four cylinder engine then after they signed the truce. they started sending in new trucks automatic transmission GMCs new just didn’t have them when the war was going on but after the war seems like we got plenty equipment. Sams: That’s interesting McNeill: our generators were we had four of those little four cylinder flat headed engines for a generator to create electricity they could send us one diesel that would replace four of them. Sams: O wow McNeill: Produce the same amount of and the guys that had to stand by to repair them and keep them going man it just it just made their job much easier they didn’t have to be working on engines all the time they could just put fuel in them and set back and watch them produce. Sams: That’s great, that sounds good. McNeill: we had a funny saying we'd say that happened after Eisenhower become president and we had all that all that old equipment we used when we fighting the war then when after we signed the truce we were just swamped with new equipment and it didn’t add up to us over there using it but that’s the way it was. Sams: Now when you in Korea did you ever have contact with your family? Did you ever keep up with them? McNeill: Course some people would write every day some people write once a week some people would write once a month I think I averaged I’d say three times a week anyway and when I went on R&R to Japan I got to call home and talk to my folks and call Betty we were engaged then and I called her and talked to her and woke her up in the middle of the night I wasn’t thinking about the time difference and what time it was back here I just had a chance to call and did it while I had a chance. Sams: Right 4 �McNeill: But she was kinda groggy I woke her up Sams: So I know you mentioned when you were on leave you went to Japan. What else would you do while you were on leave? McNeill: we go down to Seoul for three days sometimes the headquarters was right below there in Dong Won Po but the old capital building for Korea was in Seoul and it was turned into a PX for US soldiers it’s amazing what you could find to buy in there it just it just a department store like you could find all kinda things you might want to send somebody a present home you could find it there you had to look out ahead and get it while you were there and have it to mail at the proper time but it was fun just going down there and walking through that and seeing what they had and being able to buy that you needed put in a package and take it back with you. you could get food or something that you might need that you didn’t have I’m not thinking of something. I might get a better flashlight than the one I had issued to me Sams: Ok, O Ok McNeill: and things like that a razor shaving equipment and it was good to have of course in the PX at the service center we had more than you might think for you had food, cigarettes, Tobacco, some clothing that you might be able to wear but what was fun was they had two pump shotguns in there and after you pulled guard you had the next day off and we could check those guns out and go out pheasant hunting. We could always find a Korean that would be our bird dog for a pack of cigarettes Sams: O wow! McNeill: and we'd scare him up and if we missed him he'd fly over a little hill this guy would run around and flush him back over you so you could have another chance at him. Sams: Wow McNeill: And that was right much fun on maybe if you pull guard the night before you'd sleep til 12 and then go pheasant hunting that evening and it was real relaxing you could forget your job and it wasn’t so aggravating for a day or two Sams: That’s great. McNeill: It was it was a relief from work but it got to where before I left you could get more things in the PX at the service center than you could when I first went there. It was much more comfortable after the truce was declared it was much, serving was much easier. Coy McNeill: Ask him if he had any dentist over there. Sams: I know that you had one story that I've hear about getting a tooth pulled could you share that with us? 5 �McNeill: O yeah that was terrible. Wisdom teeth the first two come through and our bottom had just broke and I was advised to get them pulled so we had to go up behind the third division medics and man that was crude it was just an old tent and I do believe I sat on a stump and they had two, two by fours nailed on the back of the stump and one this way to lay your head like that and one fella held my head like that while the other chiseled what was left of those what was left of the wisdom teeth out and man that that hurt and of course they give you what they had in your hand and of course when you left they’d give you left they'd give you a hand full of ACP its suppose to be the same thing as aspirin but we always said it weren't you'd have to take two to make one aspirin back home Sams: Right McNeill: that’s what they give me I got back to my tent you want me to tell it all Coy? Coy McNeill: Sure Sams: You can talk as much as you want McNeill: I didn’t get there in time for supper and I couldn’t eat anyway so when I was R&R in Japan I got me a bottle of whiskey and I put it in my locker and I was hurting and I said I gonna drink some whiskey and I drank a little too much and the next morning I woke up with my head hanging off and blood just dripping and I thick headed and I couldn’t remember having a tooth pulled and I said lord that whiskey created an ulcer I’m bleeding I’m bleeding from my stomach and after while I got up and went out back and threw up and then cleared my head then I remember having teeth pulled then the feeling was coming back but that was a prank I pulled on myself taking too much whiskey for pain reliever after having them teeth pulled I got a good scare from that the next morning when I woke up. Sams: I bet so. Now, Now when you, when your service ended tell me kinda that experience and did you come straight home or did you go back to Japan? Or how did you do that? McNeill: we went to Pusan and stead of coming through Japan like we did coming we left yeah the ship we went over on was an old converted liberty ship and its twenty four hundred troops on it plus the crew so there’s probably 3000 people on it and the sea was rough and it rode rough but coming back the ship come from Japan and it had some wife’s of men who were able to stay with their husbands in Japan and most times there would be officers and their wives were already on the ship when they stopped by Pusan and we loaded on but that was two stacker and it was much more comfortable it rode... twice as good as the one going over it would cruise and not beat you to death. Sams: Right 6 �McNeill: And all of the all the dependents were on the top deck and we were on below deck but really we would stay outside all day long and it was just it was just pleasant cruise coming home on that big longer ship with two big engines that could just , just more comfortable. Sams: That’s great. Now when you came home did you come through San Francisco or. McNeill: We did we came there and got there at four o'clock in the morning and then ordered us all out on deck with our duffle backs and we sat on them duffle bags til day light we still sitting there til 9 o'clock before they started letting us depart get off. And we were shouldering our duffle bags and was getting off and we saw these young girls and boys to out there all dressed alike they had oxfords on ankle socks girls had plaid skirts and they were welcome us home I though this is nice this is nice for them to come down here and do that for troops coming in. that boy walking alone with me we served together in Korea he ask them what they were doing there where they were from did they have a loved one or something they were greeting and that busted our bubble they said they were from the school up on the hill and when troop ships come in they paid them five dollars and give them the morning off to go down and welcome the troops. Sams: O Ok. Well this has been a great experience talking to you. Is there any closing remarks you wanna talk about? McNeill: I’ll probably think of something after you leave but its good reminiscing about it it was... I think about it a lot to myself don’t talk a lot about it but I do think about it a lot to myself but the only place I think I got unnerved over there while I was riding shotgun on the truck hauling ammunition and a big convey we went in behind the line and they went to shelling us over there and they told them to scatter the convey so truck drivers one would go this way one would go that way and got in the rough terrain that thing bounced and I fell off. Sams: O wow McNeill: He went on of course and later that night I found him we went up a trench there’s a mountain in front of us they all ordered us up that trench to wind around and go up and he went just a few feet and stop and waited on me he knew I would come through eventually and he was kidding me about he was he been there and bout ready to rotate home. He was a tough dude from St. Louis Missouri and he loved to rag me about how upset I got that night. Sams: Very good. Well this has been great and glad we could do this thank you for your time McNeill: Your welcome Jackson and I hope it serves you well Sams: It will I’m sure. I’m sure it will be listened to for years now 7 � https://omeka-test.library.appstate.edu/files/original/37277063fcfda48a38b595c7bc34882f.MP3 5f1336fd3864f5bd266d5d987fdecd0f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Appalachian State University American Military History Course Veterans Oral History Project Description An account of the resource Each semester, the students of the American Military History Course at Appalachian State University conduct interviews with military veterans and record their military experiences in order to create an archive of oral history interviews that are publicly accessible to researchers. 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Subject The topic of the resource McNeill, Samuel Veterans Korean War, 1950-1953 Personal narratives, American United States Interviews army corporal draft Korea Seoul textiles https://omeka-test.library.appstate.edu/files/original/b70d691be8511025dc46bd8cd3986a53.pdf 8351f6d5cb81151c10f8946c9cb25dfa PDF Text Text Andrew Nicolaysen Name: Branch: Years Served: Conflicts: Date of Interview: Eric Nicolaysen U.S. Army 1956-1958 Cold War (Korea) October 14, 2012 Andrew Nicolaysen: Okay, so my name is Andrew Nicolaysen, and for the record, what is your name? Erik Nicolaysen: Erik Nicolaysen Andrew: And we’re conducting this interview over the phone. I’m in Boone, North Caroline and you’re in Chappaqua, New York. Erik: Correct Andrew: And it is the 14th of October 2012. Erik: Okay Andrew: …When and where were you born? Erik: February 8th, 1933. I was born in Mt. Kisco, New York. Andrew: Okay, and where did you, or what…branch of the military did you serve in? Erik: I served in the US Army Andrew: Was that active duty or National Guard? Erik: Both Andrew: Did you serve in active duty first? Erik: No, what I did is I…joined the… I actually joined the reserves, not the National Guard. I…the New Jersey…reserve division…When…New Jersey while I was attending Rutgers University…and over the 3 years that I served with the reserve unit…I made corporal…meanwhile I was also tracking with the ROTC at college…and I took a commission upon graduation from college…in 1956…and got a promotion while I was in duty and ended up leaving the service as a…as a 1st lieutenant. I then spent some time with a signal core company in Ossining, New York. But then they were disbanded about a year after I got out of the service. …I then spent about 6 months working with a medical unit and was stationed up…up near West Point. On the…eastern side of the Hudson…a medical evacuation units, because they were short officers…and then I…at that point, since they had full, they had official medically trained officers in, so I was superfluous to them and went to the…ready reserve. And stayed with the 1 �Andrew Nicolaysen ready reserve until I got an honorable discharge and all told I spent about 11 years in the service in one connection or the other. Andrew: Do you remember why you joined the military? Erik: …I just felt there was a duty, there was also a case too that the…draft was in effect at that point, most people were…or a significant number of people were getting drafted so I figured I was gonna go no matter what…and…I decided that if I was gonna go, I’d prefer to go as an officer. ….and I was studying engineering, and signal core went well with the engineering so I decided to…to…join the signal core unit at Rutgers University. Andrew: When did you first go to Korea? Erik: I went to Korea in late 56, stayed there through to the beginning of 58. Andrew: And what did you do there? Erik: I was assigned to the 51st signal battalion, and my first job was battalion motor pool officer. We were responsible for the…secondary level of maintenance…on the battalion vehicles. We had somewhere between 5 and 600 vehicles of assorted types: deuce and a half, tractor-trailers, ¾ tons, jeeps…and…we then…and the normal preliminary maintenance was done with each company, but then the major overhauls…were done by us and then if there was a real major job the vehicle was transferred to the ordnance department that did the overhaul, but generally…probably 90 to 95% of the work on the vehicles was done at the battalion level. Andrew: Were you… Erik: …then I got…after a while I was transferred…from that to a radio teletype platoon, which was responsible for…radio teletype communications…between ICOR headquarters and all the way down to Busan. …and then I…I finished…my last month or so of being in charge of the…the maintenance unit that took care of the…generators and….welding equipment to smaller equipment of that nature. And I was in charge of running that…operation for the last month or so before I was discharged. Andrew: How did you end up in the motor pool if you were a…signal officer? Erik: …because when I…got there they looked at…our private work, and I had worked on the assembly line at General Motors. So there were 3 of us who were lieutenants who arrived at the same time…and the other 2 were assigned to line companies. By the way, I was trained in microwave equipment, and the nearest microwave equipment was in Hawaii. But when we arrived the…other 2 officers were assigned to line companies, basically stringing wire and things of that nature. And I was assigned the headquarters company because I had worked on the assemble line at General Motors during the summer, and therefore they thought I knew something about…trucks. Luckily I had a sergeant who knew what he was doing. Much more so than I did, that was for sure. 2 �Andrew Nicolaysen Andrew: …Because you were there after the armistice, what was the nature of the combat that was happening in Korea at the time? Erik: Basically there was no formal combat, but the North Koreans…were, still had a propensity for sneaking through the…DMZ, we were only 10 miles south of the…DMZ in Uijeongbu, Korea, and we were 10 miles south of the DMZ so…our line companies, who were generally out…doing a lot of…small…squads stringing along wire and things of that nature. They were working behind the…sneaking through the…front lines or they would come south, even around the…water. Even to the east and west coasts, and therefore there were certain instances…of…attacks by them on…isolated units…although it was more a nuisance than anything formal because…the activities during the Korean War were such that…that the South Koreans hated the North Koreans with a passion. And the first…Korean or…farmer who would spot these guys would immediately run to the nearest police or army station and report ’em so…although they did pull us…to movement into the field on occasion and stuff of that nature, they never lasted very long and don’t…to the best of my knowledge, there were few if any prisoners taken. Andrew: What were some of your most memorable experiences, while you were in the military? Erik: It was a job like anything else, I mean, that…you know, I could remember…when I was in the…still in college, I went to Camp Gordon for summer. The other 2 summers that I was in, I went to…Camp Drum with the reserve unit…but I mean, that was mainly just training. The entire time we were there, we were being taught the equipment…small unit…activity for a supply unit or a support unit rather than a, you know, combat infantry… Probably the thing that sticks with me the most was …qualification with weapons for the entire battalion and we had about…we had about, I think about 1800 enlisted men…and then we had about 6 or 700 Korean troops that were attached…and basically we had to qualify ‘till there was one captain, and myself and another lieutenant, and we worked…for about 3 or 4 weeks, I’m trying to remember now, but…qualifying everyone on their individual weapons and then we had…their table of organization called for half a dozen .30 calibers, we had…oh maybe half a dozen .50 calibers that were mounted on the top of the…deuce and a halfs when they had a ring to fire with them, and then we had some bazookas…and…we had 1 or 2 recoilless rifles. So basically we to…you know, talk through firing for the entire battalion and then individual weapons and then we had to…do the crew served weapons. Andrew: Did you make any…close friendships and relationships while you were in the Army? Erik: Yeah I did, but…because of my age now, I think all of them are dead. I know 2 guys I was closest to…were dead and I think most of the rest of them that…I was in at that time are also deceased. Andrew: Has your service and experiences affected your life? Like, continuing on? Erik: Oh, I think it made for a little bit better organization…you know, follow through and not put things off…you know, that carried over, I did…I did do constructions projects after I got back out, In addition to working in the ...insurance agency. I built…5 or 6 commercial buildings 3 �Andrew Nicolaysen and half a dozen homes and remodeled other homes…and that required considerable organization to do that as a side line, you know. Andrew: Well, I think that’s about everything I need, unless there’s anything you would like to add. Erik: …not really…you know, there was…I enjoyed the period of time…I remember…one thing I do remember about Korea was the coldness, when we went out in the field…wind used to come out of Siberia, and…temperatures below 0…were not at all unusual and…I can remember crawling under trucks with the old blow torches to release the brakes where they had frozen overnight, and stuff of that nature, so we could move the vehicles. And…for those kinds of things, everybody pitched in, officers, noncoms…you know…you know, If you wanted to move the vehicles and get out of there, everybody did what they could, so…it was…but I do remember how God awful cold it got. Andrew: Okay, well, I think that…about finishes it up. 4 � https://omeka-test.library.appstate.edu/files/original/41cb084ed42d8679e9969932f4a024b3.mp3 fd3c8ae26e98f363cd41cb0dd388f1b8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Appalachian State University American Military History Course Veterans Oral History Project Description An account of the resource Each semester, the students of the American Military History Course at Appalachian State University conduct interviews with military veterans and record their military experiences in order to create an archive of oral history interviews that are publicly accessible to researchers. The oral histories are permanently available in the Appalachian State University Special Collections. 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File size 126 KB 11.6 MB Format, digital MP3 Military Branch military branch (U.S. Army, etc) U.S. Army Officer Rank Officer rank (major, private, etc) 1st Lieutenant Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nicolaysen; Andrew Nicolaysen; Erik Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. Nicolaysen, Andrew Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. Nicolaysen, Erik Interview Date 10/14/2012 Number of pages 4 Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 0:12:40 Date digitized 2/6/2015 Checksum alphanumeric code fe82e370cdc15928e9fe8095315af49e fd3c8ae26e98f363cd41cb0dd388f1b8 Scanned by Leah McManus Equipment Adobe Acrobat XI Pro Resolution 300 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright for the Veterans Oral History Project's audio and transcripts is held by Appalachian State University. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 5018_Nicolaysen_Erik_20121014_transcript_M 5018_Nicolaysen_Erik_20121014_audio_A Title A name given to the resource Interview with Erik Nicolaysen [October 14, 2012] Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History Language A language of the resource English English Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nicolaysen, Andrew Nicolaysen, Erik Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a title="UA.5018. American Military History Course Records" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/167" target="_blank">UA.5018. American Military History Course Records</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright for the Veterans Oral History Project's audio and transcripts is held by Appalachian State University. These materials are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used. Description An account of the resource Eric Nicolaysen enlisted in the US Army reserves in 1956, served in the Cold War, and spent some time in Korea. He did not see any combat during his time in the military. Subject The topic of the resource Nicolaysen, Erik Veterans Cold War United States Interviews 1956-58 51st signal battalion Cold War Eric Nicolaysen General Motors Korea radio teletype reserves US Army