Creative History

  By February 7, 1951 Captain Lewis Millet of the United States Army was already a hardened warrior.  He is a seasoned veteran of combat in two of America’s major wars.   Millet served with distinction in Italy during the Second World War, and now, at the still tender age of 31 Captain Millet is on his second tour of duty in Korea. In the cold snowy dawn, on a barren hillside near the 38th parallel, labelled as Hill 180 on military maps, outside a town called Anyang in South Korea, a platoon of American infantrymen is pinned down by ferocious Chinese mortar and machine gun fire. Unable to move forward, the beleaguered American troops scrape at the frozen ground with entrenching tools and attempt to press their bodies into the earth to avoid being killed by the relentless Chinese fire which is falling on them like rain from the entrenched and fortified Communist positions atop Hill 180. After beating back the North Korean invasion of the South in the summer of 1...