Korean Nights: The 4th Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) 1950-1951

The 120 man 4th Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was one of the first of six airborne trained, light infantry, ranger companies to fight in the Korean war, 1950-1951. 4th Company was one of two Ranger companies to make a combat jump during that war when they reinforced the 187th Regimental Combat Team for Munsan-ni in March 1951. 4th Rangers was the only company to have conducted an amphibious operation, Hwachon Reservoir, April 1951. The members of this company saw plenty of the usual Ranger and heavy-infantry type action. On numerous occasions they were required to occupy a battalion sized front. They operated as part of armor-infantry teams, assault units, and the usual deep penetrating patrols expected and associated with Ranger units. There is a lot of unit and individual action in this history and since 4th Company was a Regular Army active unit for less than eleven months, you can follow their day to day progress within these covers. Join them in their peace-time billets as airborne soldiers and follow through recruitment into the Rangers, Ranger training, to troop movement overseas and into their 'blooding' and first combat casualty. Finally, to the day that word came that General Ridgway did not think Korea the proper environment for Rangers. This is not a work of fiction nor a rework of history. This is the way it happened. --- from book's back cover