Author Topic: Army Info (Read 197 times)

Hawklore · « **on:** November 13, 2002, 04:35:18 PM »

Im trying to get info about my grandad (moms side) he was an engineer in the 590th in Korea not sure if he was there during the war or not...

Name is Bruce L. Bennet

And im not sure what rank he is, it looked like sgt. on his jacket..

I want to know is like, Rank etc.

Never got to know him but this is the closest i can get to...

Please if you have any idea where I could look letme know..

And there are these 2 gold/yellow bars on this brown background going horizontal in the book, its a patch, not metal or anything..

Any idea what that is?

Hawklore · « **Reply #1 on:** November 13, 2002, 09:30:44 PM »

No help? any help would be appreciated..

What about the patch his more recatgular its not a ribbion (I know what they look like) its like two horizontal gold bars spazed verticaly on a brown background...

Dont make me post pics

Russian · « **Reply #2 on:** November 13, 2002, 09:39:40 PM »

http://www2.powercom.net/~rokats/kore_era.html

ps
power of google

Hawklore · « **Reply #3 on:** November 13, 2002, 09:47:07 PM »

None of them are on there, I know i spent 2 hours looking through google, found that page too, one pic he is a seargent which my mom dosent think he got that high....

Ill post pics you lousy flyers of aces high

Hawklore · « **Reply #4 on:** November 13, 2002, 09:52:27 PM »

Here they are see how fast I am

Raubvogel · « **Reply #5 on:** November 13, 2002, 10:15:31 PM »

The upper left disc is his branch insignia-in this case, the Engineer Corps. The 2 stripes you speak of are overseas service bars. Each stripe denotes 6 months spent in an overseas combat theater. Looks like he spent a year in Korea.

Hawklore · « **Reply #6 on:** November 13, 2002, 10:38:42 PM »

Ok thanks alot Raubvogel you have no idea how long it would of taken to find that on the web!

and yes he was with the 590th Engineers in korea then came home but most of his time with the 590th. the Blue Heart is their patch im guessing with the 8th army is my guess.

and got initiaed you know the gold dragon thing

illpost pics of him and stuff thanks that answers that

Dinger · « **Reply #7 on:** November 13, 2002, 11:45:31 PM »

You should find in there somewhere his discharge papers: they'll have a summary of his service record. There could also be a wallet-sized card with a summary of that summary.
As for what the 590th engineers did in Korea, the US Govt. has all kinds of official histories for each branch of the military, and if you do a little digging, you can find out exactly where he was on what day and how many square feet of PSP they put down before lunch.
Of course, when you're that curious, you'd have to go to a federal repository (or was it depository?) library, or contact the archivist at the museum appropriate to service/branch

Anyway, it looks like he was port construction at Inchon.

http://www.koreanwar.org/html/units/8en_ecghq.htm

maybe okinawa too...
who knows?

Hawklore · « **Reply #8 on:** November 14, 2002, 10:34:17 AM »

Actualy there arent any discharge paper he put it together by him self, we are sending something to the goverment for all his papers, and to see if he was issued any awards that he did not get or had lost...