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Korea: Forgotten Sacrifice
Korea Forgotten Sacrifice tracks the experiences of Junior, a young American combat photographer turned lethal assassin and Kim Il Sung, the Korean dictator who led the invasion into the Republic of Korea in June, 1950. Assigned to General MacArthur’s staff, Junior has an uncanny ability to survive behind enemy lines and acquire valuable intelligence. Wild Bill Donovan selects Junior for Operation Solar Eclipse, MacArthur’s plan to kill enemy leaders bearing code names of the planets. Fearing escalation of the war, he orders Junior to avoid killing any Soviet officers. At first, Kim’s Soviet-backed invasion is so successful that his army is on the verge of driving the enemy off the Korean Peninsula. However, the United States brings its considerable might to the war. Junior is dispatched into the war zone. From his sniper hide, Junior targets two North Korean generals standing with a general in a Soviet uniform. He kills the two and refrains from shooting the third who he later learns was Kim. Back in Tokyo, Junior meets a Japanese geisha named Sachie. They fall in love. She is the only thing keeping him from becoming a soulless killing machine. MacArthur forbids Junior from an interracial marriage with the geisha. MacArthur turns the tide of the war by conducting a brilliant turning maneuver invading at Inchoen behind Kim’s lines. When Junior returns from an exceptionally dangerous assignment, he learns that Sachie is a fugitive because she stabbed two drunken American officers who tried to rape her. With Sachie gone, Junior is sent again behind enemy lines. When he loses another close buddy, he captures an enemy machine gun and kills several hundred North Korean soldiers. He is rewarded with a trip to Washington where President Truman awards him several Purple Heart and Silver Star medals. In a drunken rage at his losses, he throws all the medals into the river. As UN forces under MacArthur move close to the Yalu River separating Korea from China, Mao takes over the North Korean military and commits 300,000 soldiers to stop MacArthur’s advance. Chosin Reservoir in the North Korean mountains is where the combatants collide in brutal, freezing conditions. Vastly outnumbered, the American military faces annihilation. Junior is recruited for Project Ramona, a CIA operation to recover Japanese atomic bomb research in the tunnels beneath Chosin Reservoir. After successfully securing valuable atomic research, Junior is severely injured when a falling soldier nearly crushes him while he is escaping on a rope ladder. When the doctors in Tokyo fear that Junior will not survive, MacArthur contacts a classmate who is a top spinal trauma surgeon to operate on Junior. During his recovery, Junior is visited by MacArthur who informs him that the President has fired him for planning to use the Japanese research to create a forty-mile wide radioactive zone between China and North Korea. The war has destroyed everyone that Junior values. As Junior sinks into hopelessness, a friend of Sachie tells him where to find her. A damaged Junior travels to the remote island of Iriomote, where he re-unites with Sachie at a scenic waterfall where she releases a traditional warrior kite in a gesture of closure.
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