Ranger: A Soldier's Life

by Ralph Puckett and D.K.R. Crosswell

Book Overview

On November 25, 1950, during one of the toughest battles of the Korean War, the US Eighth Army Ranger Company seized and held the strategically important Hill 205 overlooking the Chongchon River. Separated by more than a mile from the nearest friendly unit, fifty-one soldiers fought several hundred Chinese attackers. Their commander, Lieutenant Ralph Puckett, was wounded three times before he was evacuated. For his actions, he received the country's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813169313
• ISBN13: 9780813169316
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up