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Contact Info
Home Town Middletown
Last Address Claremont, CA
Date of Passing Nov 20, 2012
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
First Director of FEMA, Founder California Specialized Training Institute. Giuffrida was a Major General in the State Military Reserve of California. He the recipient of the USSR'S Memorial Award, Italy's "Merito della Repubblica Italiana", and Sweden's Sundelin Medal. He also established the nation's first integrated Emergency Management System and served as the designated Chief US Delegate to NATO's Civil Emergency Planning and Civil Defense Committees. "Source Giuffrida's Obituary. He was originally commissioned in the USMC as an infantry officer in 1943 serving in the Pacific Theater as a platoon leader and company commander. He left the USMC to accept an RA commission serving in the 7th Infantry Division during the Korean War. He served after the Korean War in a series of military intelligence and military police positions culminating as the 4th MP AIT Bde Cdr, Ft Gordon, GA.
Korean War/CCF Intervention (1950-51)/Chosin Reservoir (Battle of Changjin)
From Month/Year
November / 1950
To Month/Year
December / 1950
Description The Battle of Chosin Reservoir, also known as the Chosin Reservoir Campaign or the Changjin Lake Campaign was a decisive battle in the Korean War. "Chosin" is the Japanese pronunciation of the Korean name, "Changjin". The UN forces relied on Japanese language maps dating from their occupation of Korea which had only ended five years earlier at the conclusion of World War II. Shortly after the People's Republic of China entered the conflict, the People's Volunteer Army 9th Army infiltrated the northeastern part of North Korea.
On 27 November, the Chinese 9th Army surprised the US X Corps commanded by Major General Edward Almond at the Chosin Reservoir area. A brutal 17 day battle in freezing weather soon followed. In the period between 27 November and 13 December 1950, 30,000 United Nations troops (later nicknamed "The Chosin Few") under the field command of Major General Oliver P. Smith were encircled and attacked by approximately 120,000 Chinese troops under the command of Song Shi-Lun, who had been ordered by Mao Zedong to destroy the UN forces. The UN forces were nonetheless able to make a fighting withdrawal and broke out of the encirclement while inflicting crippling losses on the Chinese. While the battle resulted in the Chinese pushing the UN out of North Korea, it was a Pyrrhic victory. The evacuation of the X Corps from the port of Hungnam marked the complete withdrawal of UN troops from North Korea
