Handwritten diary from the Korean War (donated by Kim Jong-tae) (5/37)

The record is an approximate week’s worth of diary entries from August 1950 written by the donor, front and back on 18 pages of stationery paper. The account states that the donor, a farmer, tried best not to flee as he was worried his rice crop would stop growing if he ceased to weed his paddies; that he dug a hole in his yard and buried his food there before fleeing to protect it from air raids; that while fleeing he saw and was intrigued by the Black American soldiers he had only heard about; and that the noise when the US soldiers fired their artillery was deafeningly loud.