“Everyone in our crew got the Korean Expeditionary Medal but it doesn’t appear in the service records.”
Have you talked to the Board for Correction of Military Records?
No. I don’t care that much. I know I was there as do all the others on the Enterprise and her escorts one of which I was on. The damn Time Magazine had our little task force on its cover less that a week after the plane was shot down. Considering deadlines in the pencil press, there was a leak at the highest level. Probably straight from the Pentagon on orders from Nixon to do a psych job on Kim Il Sung and his Chicom handlers.