Elzie Tyree
Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 8 May 1951, page 3
M Sgt. Elzie Tyree, 22, Newport, talks over the trip home with a
buddy at a replacement depot at Pusan, Korea. He is one of the first men of the
First Cavalry Division leaving the fighting front for the United States on
rotation. Sgt. Tyree is a Purple Heart veteran, having been wounded Oct 9
shortly after his outfit crossed the 38th Parallel.
He has been overseas more than two years. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Tyree, 215 W 11th street, Newport.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 10 May 1951, page 1
Among the first to return to the United States from Korean battlefields on a rotated leave plan, is M Sgt. Elzie Tyree, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Tyree, 215 W 11th street, Newport. He arrived by train from Seattle Wash. at Cincinnati's Union Terminal Wednesday night. His ship landed Saturday at Seattle.
Sgt. Tyree suffered face wounds Oct 9, 1950, at Taegu. Sidelined for a week he was back on the fighting line as his outfit crossed the 38th parallel for the first time. Sgt. Tyree is with the Seventh Regiment, First Cavalry Division. He has a great respect for the number nine. He pointed out for Japan Oct 9, 1948; was wounded Oct 9, 1950; came home May 9 and will report to Ft Knox June 9.
A discharged veteran of 18 months service with the occupation forces in Japan which he started at the age of 17 in April 1946, Sgt. Tyree re-enlisted in July 1948, when his brother Cpl. Boyd H Tyree, 20, also enlisted. Cpl Tyree, still in Korea where he was sent at the outbreak of fighting met up with his brother last January near Taegu. Sgt. Tyree hardly recognized Cpl. Tyree, a member of the 24th Infantry, Third Engineers, because the latter needed a haircut badly.
Sgt. Tyree received the Purple Heart and three Presidential unit citations. His regiment was trapped during stiff fighting in North Korea near the Yalu river lat in November when the Chinese entered the war. Sgt. Tyree's regiment had a great number of casualties and had to battle out of the trap.