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Description
The PPCLI arrive at the front line, just north of the city of Seoul. Mr. Nickerson recalls the gruesome sight that greeted them.
Transcription
Well, I think that one thing that was most vivid in my memory was a bunch of Americans that had been killed. Colonel Stone marched the whole battalion as we were moving up through where all the bodies and that were and, what had happened was, I don't know how many there was there but there was close to a hundred, and they'd got into their sleeping bags and went to sleep. And I would imagine they left people on guard but something happened and the North Koreans come in and killed them all, pretty well, in their sleeping bags, bayoneted them and stuff like that. And the colonel wanted the battalion to look at this and think about it.
Interviewer: What do you remember was the impact that that had on you personally?
Pretty damn gruesome, you know, really, to see people half out of their sleeping bags and stuff like that. It was, it was pretty gruesome. That's why we never had sleeping bags.
Interviewer: The PPCLI never had sleeping bags?
We had blankets, two blankets.
Interviewer: And the idea was that you'd be able to get out of those blankets quicker?
You'd get out of them. Pretty tough trying to get out of one of them cocoon-type sleeping bags in a hurry.