THE TERRIBLE ATTACKS OF Capt. F. I. "Ike" Fenton.

THE TERRIBLE ATTACKS OF Capt. F. I. "Ike" Fenton.In hilly terrain near Pusan, South Korea, Capt. F. I. "Ike" Fenton of the U.S. Marines hears more bad news.

It is August 1950, and his company has been fighting all night. More than half of his 190 men are wounded or killed. 

They are out of ammunition. He has lost radio contact with his superiors. And now, he is told, his first sergeant is mortally wounded.

U.S. Marines had been in Korea barely two weeks when the 27-year-old Fenton, who had fought in World War II, is plunged into a critical battle. In June, the North Korean Army crosses the 38th Parallel into South Korea.

After the United Nations Security Council votes to authorize force to repel the surprise invasion, U.N., South Korean and U.S. troops establish a 150-mile-long defensive perimeter around Pusan, a port on the southeastern coast.

Fenton’s company is sent into a breach in the perimeter and ordered to "hold at all cost," lest the attacking North Koreans flank and rout the allies.

The only marines coming off that hill are dead marines," Fenton says to his commander. Using bayonets and grenades borrowed from another company nearby, Fenton’s men hold the line.

Reinforcements arrive, and the battlefront moves on to Inchon, to Seoul, to the "frozen Chosin"; Chinese troops join North Korea’s; the Communist forces eventually are pushed back; President Eisenhower signs an armistice treaty in 1953. 

Killed are at least 600,000 Chinese; 1.5 million North Korean and 1.2 million South Korean civilians and troops; 3,000 U.N. soldiers and 36,500 Americans. Another 8,100 Americans are missing in action. 

The veterans, returning to U.S. soil, do not receive a hero’s welcome and call Korea the "forgotten war."

died Sunday, October 11, 1998, at the age of 76.

Colonel Fenton was a combat veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam. His many decorations included three Legions of Merit, three Bronze Stars, both the Army and Navy Commendation medals and several commendation medals for gallantry from the Republic of Vietnam and the South Korean Governments.

Following his military career, he was the Director of National Cash Register's World Wide Parts Center in Dayton, Ohio and Peachtree City, Georgia. 

For the past 19 years, he has served as one of the Directors for the Georgia State Golf Association and has been very active as an official in the administration and operations of Georgia Golf.