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Looking Back on the
Korean War
 A
Foxhole View: Personal Accounts of Hawaii's Korean War Veterans published
by UH Press is a powerful and moving oral history of the Korean War. Louis Baldovi
has compiled highly personal accounts of the war from the rank and file of the
infantry.
Told in their own words collected through extensive interviews, A Foxhole
View is presented in diary fashion, from the opening of the war in June
1950, to the final returns home in September 1953. These stories trace the harrowing
journey from Territorial Hawai‘i to the battlefields, hospitals and POW
camps of Korea, and back to a changing homeland.
Baldovi served as a rifleman with the U.S. Army's 45th Infantry Division during
the Korean War. After his reenlistment in 1953, he was assigned to the Hawaiian
Infantry Training Center at Schofield Barracks as an instructor and drill sergeant.
He later served as a school teacher and principal for 27 years.
A Foxhole View is available for $21.50 from the UH
Press Web site.
The Buzz on A Foxhole View
"A terrific read. A Foxhole View tells an important story of fear,
heroism, brotherhood, and courage. It is at one and the same time a gritty,
horrible, and glorious story. I found myself awed by the everyday, humble, matter-of-fact
valor of these men."
—Dan Boylan, University of Hawai‘i–West
O‘ahu, and co-author of John A. Burns: The Man and His Times
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