Gradys Tour: Lieutenant John Gradys Tour of Duty In Korean War
by John H. Gallagher
Category: Fiction

This historical novel closely follows the strategic events of the Korean War. Fictional Lieutenant John Grady is training at Fort Monmouth N.J., when the war begins. He arrives in South Korea days after the Inchon landing and experiences combat south of Seoul. He is in North Korea at the Manchurian border when the Chinese enter the war on a massive scale. He and his Signal Corps crew are trapped behind Chinese lines and walk and fight their way out in subzero weather. He returns to Fort Monmouth where his commanding general has a fanatical safe-driving campaign that court-martials soldiers who have auto accidents. Senator Joe McCarthy alleges that a Communist spy ring is operating in the Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories and creates a sensational investigation. Grady works in JAG and becomes involved in both matters. Grady has a long and sometimes perplexing courtship with a local girl.