HEY, MAC, WHERE YA BEEN?
Living Memories of the U.S. Marines
in the Korean War

NF/NF. (NY: St Martin's Press, 1988). First Edition. Original "$22.95" still intact on dust jacket flap. Maps, photographs, index, 330 pp. First-hand accounts of Korean vets as told to the author of Semper Fi, Mac and Make the Kaiser Dance.

From Publishers Weekly: A collection of gung-ho "leather-neck" anecdotes, this honors the Korean War Marine in the same informal spirit as the author's Semper Fi, Mac, which honored the Marine of World War II. Berry captures the cocky, stoic, aggressive persona that characterized the gyrene of an earlier generation through a series of tales (some of them a bit tall) as told either by or about Marines of several ranks. In common with almost all books about the 1950-53 war, this deals mainly with the first six months, a period far more dramatic than the final two-and-a-half years when United Nations forces and Communist armies pushed each other back and forth across the 38th Parallel. The book is more entertaining than informative, aimed principally at former Marines and their admirers, of whom there are a great many in both categories.

From Library Journal: Over a period of three years, Berry interviewed some 60 Korean War veterans, most of whom had served in the front lines or with the 1st Marine Air Wing, along with one naval doctor at the Chosin Reservoir. Many of the accounts contain capsule biographies of the veterans as well as what each remembers most vividly of his experience. There is a freshness in the retelling of these experiences by men such as baseball great Ted Williams, a World War II veteran recalled to service. Historians might note that many of these memories disclaim the legend that the Marines in Korea always brought out their dead and wounded.