Thomas H. Pettigrew Jr.
An American, A Hero, A Black Man

"AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN"


 

            On the night of November 30, 1950
at approximately 11:30, PM the commander and elements of his staff, plus some 60 enlisted men of the U.S. Army were led to safety from an enemy trap in the North Korean in the town of  Kunu-ri  by an obscure soldier.

        We were attacked....The account  is "Dramatically  told with vigor and considerable skill, "THE KUNU-RI  INCIDENT" brings you a startling story of men at war — in a very real war — as told by "the obscure soldier" at war as he experienced  first hand . Who was that soldier, what did he do, and what exactly was
 

"The KUNU-RI (KUMOR) INCIDENT?"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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THOMAS H. PETTIGREW JR.
HAD AN EXTENSIVE CAREER IN THE U.S. ARMY, WHICHSTARTED IN THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS IN 1939. HE SERVED IN THE U.S. ARMY IN THE STATES, EUROPE AND ASIA DURING WORLD WAR II, KOREAN, SAIPAN. AND OKINAWA. HE RECEIVED A BATTLE STAR FOR THE SAIPAN CAMPAIGN. HE VOLUNTEERED FOR COMBAT IN KOREA AND SERVED IN COMBAT WITH THE EIGHT ARMY, AND RECEIVED A BATTLEFIELD COMMISSION IN 1951. HE EARNED THREE BATTLE STARS DURING THE KOREAN CAMPAIGN. AND WAS DECORATED FOR HEROISM. HE WAS THE UNIT COMMANDER OF A COMBAT ENGINEER BATTALION THAT WAS SENT TO EUROPE AS A SPECIAL  MILITARY ADVISOR TO THE AIR FORCE COMMANDER. THOMAS LEFT THE ACTIVE ARMY IN 1954, BUT REMAINED WITH THE U.S. ARMY RESERVES AS A UNIT COMMANDER; AND CIVILIAN EMPLOYEE, UNTIL HE RETIRED.

DR. PETTIGREW WAS AN AUTHOR, AND PUBLISHED HIS OWN ACCOUNT OF A MAJOR BATTLE DURING THE KOREAN CAMPAIGN.

 


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