Burtch and Cook: Kap'yong — What Canada learned from the first hot battle of the Cold War
Burtch and Cook: Kap’yong — What Canada learned from the first hot battle of the Cold War Andrew Burtch , Tim Cook © Provided by Ottawa Citizen Lieut. Mike Levy (left) inspects a captured submachine gun in Korea, 1951. As the lieutenant of 10 Platoon, D Company, 2 PPCLI, Levy made the call to bring down artillery on his own position during the Battle of Kap'yong. “Be steady, kill and don’t give way!” That was the order of Lt.-Col. Jim Stone, the tough commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, to his 700 soldiers on th...
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