Inaccurate Artillery

Well, it was … the artillery was good, but they were behind the 25 pounders, way behind. But a lot of times, we had to worry about them, because they used to drop short. And I heard a captain or a major holler down, he said, “Get those damn things up higher. No, not 200. Put them up four. They’re landing on us.” And they were getting close to the observation post where he was. And a lot of times they would fall short, and they’d drop on us. Well, we knew when it was ours. And we used to call it, when they went over, was ‘outgoing mail’. When it was coming in, it was ‘incoming mail’. And someone would say, “That’s outgoing, but it’s coming in here.” So that means that they had to get through the artillery, to tell them not to. Then, the Americans, they used to come up with Bofor guns behind us, just to let the North Koreans think we had more power than what we had. They fire like hell. Then they move out and we start getting pounded because they thought we had them, you know. That’s the way it was.