Samuel Taylor Kelly

Plain Tales of the Korean Hills: A Post Armistice Odyssey

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Raising World Children LLC
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 216mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 998g
• ISBN-13: 9781098347338
• ISBN-10: 1098347331
• Artikelnr.: 61330829

Autorenporträt

Sam Kelly started his military career in JROTC at Long Beach Poly High School then enlisted in the 452 Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, at Daugherty Field, Air Force Reserves with his friend Paul Kellogg. He requested a transfer to the Army in 1953 so he could go to Korea. He arrived just after the Armistice. He saw a post war Korea and the resolve of the locals to rebuild their country. After Korea Sam graduated from Cal Poly San Louis Obispo and started work with the Ocean Engineer division of Interstate Electronics in Anaheim California where he worked on locating and recovering things people lost on the ocean floor. Before the Hughes Glomar Explorer Barge could sale on a mission he had to get all the feral cats safely ashore. After Interstate he taught ocean engineering at Cal Poly Pomona. During the cold war he worked with the Soviets on a number of ocean research operations in the Pacific.