Jack Reissman - Korean War Engineer

[Walt's Daughter]

Here's a slideshow I compiled from the photos that Jack supplied me with this week. These are all from the Korean War.

 

The slideshow may take a while to load if you have a slower connection. Thumbnails will appear first, then larger photos will appear one by one.

 

This one's for you Jack my dear. Hope you enjoy it.

 

http://www.6thcorpsmusic.us/slideshows/jac...k_reissman.html

 

This is what Jack had to say regarding the photos...

 

Hello again Marion,

 

Here are some pix relating to the 430th's "visit" to the isle of

Koje Do to help quell the POW riots that were ongoing in June of 1952.

 

The 430th went by train, with flatcars, from Wonju down to Pusan

and loaded onto an LST for the ride to Koje Do island

 

I have limited pix from Koje as we were quite busy until I was

able to get a ride "home", in July '52.

 

Hope you are able to figure out these pix and maybe some of the

guys would enjoy seeing them

 

A former Engineer, Jack Reissman

Pittsburgh, Pa.

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Hello Marion,

 

Glad to hear that you can use my pix on your website.

 

As I said, one of the biggest projects the 430th Engineers worked

on was the building of two bridges across the Soyang river just South of

the town of Inje, on the East coast of Korea.

 

They were built in the fall and winter of 1951. Started them with

no snow, but by the time we were doing the steel trestle bridge, we got

the snow, as some pictures show.

 

The 3rd platoon, I was a member, went up to the Inje pass, along

with some HQ heavy equipment operators, to maintain the pass for a few

months, December '51 'til February '52. Christmas day, '51, we had 3 feet

of snow which interupted our "holiday" meal. We had to go out to the pass

and start pushing the snow from the road down into the valley below. And

it was about -40 which wasn't easy to cope with.

 

I took a beautiful pix of the mountain pass while standing at the

top, looking down at a convoy coming up to where I was.

 

And I have a nice pix of our tents nestled in the snow in our

"home" area.

 

Thanks, Jack Reissman

Pittsburgh, Pa.

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Hello Again Marion,

 

Put 14 pix of my 1st e-mail, so thought I'd better send you

another one.

 

Most of the first bunch were of the steel trestle bridge that we

built up North over the Soyang river.

Lots of snow then and also before the snow.

 

Here are some more with the timber trestle bridge that was built

first. We worked 2 12 shifts on that one and had a seachlight desed to us

so that we could work at night.

 

I have more for another e-mail.

 

Thanks, Jack Reissman