Title I cannot forget : imprisoned in Korea, accused at home / Johnny Moore and Judith Fenner Gentry

Edition First edition Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource Series Williams-Ford Texas A & M University military history series ; no. 142 Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 142. Contents B Company, 35th Infantry in Korea. Scattered holding actions and the Pusan perimeter ; From victory over the North Koreans to defeat by the Chinese : breakout, pursuit, and mopping up -- Prisoner of war. Capture, misery, and escape attempt ; The starving time ; So-called brainwashing ; Passing the time, plans to escape, and getting into serious trouble -- An Army career during McCarthy-era investigations. My Army and my family ; The US Army moves against former prisoners of war ; Going crazy : I couldn't clear my name Summary Eighteen-year-old Johnny Moore was an energetic, self-confident private first class when he entered combat with a heavy-weapons platoon in Korea. Four and a half months later, after surviving heavy attacks on the Pusan Perimeter and in one of the forward units of the western column advancing on the Yalu River, he was captured by the Chinese infantry. Moore and other American POWs suffered from starvation rations, bitter cold, and mental torment. Although the intense Chinese efforts to change the prisoners' ideologies were largely unsuccessful, they were very effective in engendering distrust among the prisoners and abandonment of duty by the officers. Encouraged by an American sergeant, Moore worked with his captors to obtain better sanitation, a fairer distribution of food, and, on two occasions, medicine for the sick. Twice he tried to escape from imprisonment. Just four days after his twenty-first birthday, in 1953, the Chinese released him. Moore cooperated fully with US military interrogators, giving as much information as he could on the prison camp and the methods his captors had used. But two years later, army officers arrested him at his home and charged him with treason. Although the charge was dropped and a Field Board of Inquiry returned him to regular duty, the army's treatment of him left Moore further traumatized. He eventually went AWOL and turned to drinking, gambling, and other self-destructive behavior. A military historian has worked with Moore's memoirs of his experiences during and after the war to corroborate, clarify, elaborate, and situate his story within the larger events in Korea and in the Cold War Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Moore, Johnny (John Wilson), 1932- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 35th -- Biography SUBJECT United States. Army. Infantry Division, 35th fast Subject Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Prisoners and prisons. Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Personal narratives, American Soldiers -- United States -- Biography Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography Prisoners of war -- Korea (North) -- Biography Trials (Military offenses) -- United States BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- Asia -- China. Prisoners of war Soldiers Trials (Military offenses) SUBJECT United States -- History, Military -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140341 Subject Korea (North) United States Genre/Form Electronic books autobiographies (literary works) Personal narratives Autobiographies Biographies Military history Personal narratives Autobiographies. Personal narratives. Biographies. Autobiographies. Récits personnels. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Gentry, Judith F., 1942-2021 ISBN 9781623490096 162349009X 9781461937913 1461937914

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