Jordan, Carl, PR3

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USN Veteran
Current/Last Rank
Petty Officer Third Class
Current/Last Primary NEC
PR-0000-Parachute Rigger
Current/Last Rating/NEC Group
Parachute Rigger
Primary Unit
1951-1952, PR-0000, USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31)
Previously Held NEC
AN-0000-Airman
AE-0000-Aviation Electrician's Mate
Service Years
1948 - 1952
Foreign Language(s)
Spanish
PR-Parachute Rigger
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US Navy Honorable Discharge Order of the Arctic Circle (Bluenose) Cold War Veteran


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Post 6604, Folsom PostChapter 6Navy Together We Served
  2011, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW), Post 6604, Folsom Post (Life Member) (Folsom, California) - Chap. Page
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Korean War/Second Korean Winter (1951-52)
From Month/Year
November / 1951		 To Month/Year
April / 1952

Description
As 1951 drew to a close, a lull had settled over the battlefield. Fighting tapered off to a routine of patrol clashes, raids, and bitter small-unit struggles for key outpost positions. The lull resulted from Ridgway's decision to halt offensive operations in Korea, because the cost of major assaults on the enemy's defenses would be more than the results could justify. Furthermore, the possibility of an armistice agreement emerging from the recently reopened talks ruled out the mounting of any large-scale offensive by either side. On 21 November Ridgway ordered the Eighth Army to cease offensive operations and begin an active defense of its front. Attacks were limited to those necessary to strengthen the main line of resistance and to establish an adequate outpost line.

In the third week of December the U.S. 45th Division, the first National Guard division to fight in Korea, replaced the 1st Cavalry Division in the I Corps sector north of Seoul. The 1st Cavalry Division returned to Japan.

In the air, U.N. bombers and fighter-bombers continued the interdiction campaign (Operation STRANGLE, which the Far East Air Forces had begun on 15 August 1951) against railroad tracks, bridges, and highway traffic. At sea, naval units of nine nations tightened their blockade around the coastline of North Korea. Carrier-based planes blasted railroads, bridges, and boxcars, and destroyers bombarded enemy gun emplacements and supply depots. On the ground, the 155-mile front remained generally quiet in the opening days of 1952. Later in January the Eighth Army opened a month-long artillery-air campaign against enemy positions, which forced the enemy to dig in deeply. During March and April Van Fleet shifted his units along the front to give the ROK Army a greater share in defending the battle line and to concentrate American fire power in the vulnerable western sector.
   
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
From Month/Year
January / 1952		 To Month/Year
April / 1952
 
Last Updated:
Mar 16, 2020
   
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  138 Also There at This Battle:
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  • Amos, Bobby, PO1, (1949-1969)
  • Bass, Richard Daniel, LTJG, (1951-1953)
  • Camp, Paul, LT, (1951-1967)
  • Crecelius, Don, PO3, (1948-1952)
  • Emrich, William, LCDR, (1950-1975)
  • Flynn, Leo, PO1, (1945-1975)
  • Foster, James, SN, (1950-1955)
  • Hall, Gerald, AN, (1951-1955)
  • Handley, Gilbert, PO2, (1944-1952)
  • Harman, Frederick, CWO4, (1948-1978)
  • Hatchitt, Jack, PO3, (1951-1955)
  • Lacore, Pete, PO3, (1951-1955)
  • Leahy, John Patrick, CAPT, (1947-1979)
  • Legere, Robert, FN, (1948-1952)
  • Muse, Donald, PO3, (1944-1946)
  • Nicewander, Alan, FA, (1951-1953)
  • Pickering jr, Edward h., FR, (1952-1954)
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