TORONTO - Before bullets flew, the taunts exploded.
"I heard a voice shouting: 'Canada boy, tonight you die!'" Korean War veteran Ed Mastronardi says, recalling the night of Nov. 2, 1951 in the new History special "28 Heroes."
"And I shouted back: 'Come and get it! As it turned out it was a full attack. And I had 28 men."
Director Paul Kilback says the battle of Song-gok Spur — which saw a small Canadian platoon fight a battalion of 800 Chinese soldiers — is a little-known conflict from Canada's forgotten war that should be much better recognized.
"It always struck me that it's not in any of the history books," Kilback says of the extraordinary battle, in which Mastronardi's determined unit fought against all odds to maintain a key outpost in the face of repeated Communist attacks.
"Even for the people who do know about (the Korean War), Kapyong is the big thing or it's Hill 355 and never have I seen anything but a paragraph about this action. And it's one of the greatest kind of, in my opinion, one of the incredible small actions of any military history."
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This year marks the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, and the Canadian government has declared 2013 the Year of the Korean War Veteran.
"28 Heroes" premieres Monday.
"And I shouted back: 'Come and get it! As it turned out it was a full attack. And I had 28 men."
Director Paul Kilback says the battle of Song-gok Spur — which saw a small Canadian platoon fight a battalion of 800 Chinese soldiers — is a little-known conflict from Canada's forgotten war that should be much better recognized.
"It always struck me that it's not in any of the history books," Kilback says of the extraordinary battle, in which Mastronardi's determined unit fought against all odds to maintain a key outpost in the face of repeated Communist attacks.
"Even for the people who do know about (the Korean War), Kapyong is the big thing or it's Hill 355 and never have I seen anything but a paragraph about this action. And it's one of the greatest kind of, in my opinion, one of the incredible small actions of any military history."
more.....
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/28-heroes-focuses-exploits-canadian-korean-war-platoon-172103274.html
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, and the Canadian government has declared 2013 the Year of the Korean War Veteran.
"28 Heroes" premieres Monday.
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