After an overview of Ethiopia being ignored by the League of Nations and conquered by Italy in the 1930s, the Ethiopians responded to US President Harry Truman's call for allies to fight the North Korean invasion by sending the 1st Kagnew Battalion. Ultimately, Ethiopia rotated four Kagnew battalions into the Korean War.
The actions and activities of each battalion get covered in exquisite detail -- page after page of small-unit actions down at the patrol and platoon levels against North Korean and Chinese forces. Scenario ideas pop out in virtually every paragraph in the four main chapters.
If you never heard of this force, you'll be impressed with the detail, which seems taken mostly from official reports, but accentuated with interviews by the participants.
Contains 86 black and white photos, 8 maps, and 1 diagram through the main text. Center section contains four color uniform illustrations, three color vehicle profiles, and 21-photo (black and white and color) subsection with individual soldier photos and four color group photos of veterans' reunion in 2012.
Enjoyed this little known gem of a unit profile.
Ethiopia's Kagnew Battalion in the Korean War
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