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    Les Jacoby was born in 1928 in Minnesota and worked for the railroad before serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean occupation from 1946 to 1948. He operated steam locomotives in Korea as a 19-year old sergeant. After returning from service, he attended college in Minnesota under the G.I. Bill. He was recalled during the Korean War and trained to operate diesel locomotives before being assigned to Korea in 1951. However, before the diesels arrived, he was asked to establish a teletype message center in Seoul. He returned from service in 1951 and graduated from college in 1954.

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    Les Jacoby was born in 1928 in Minnesota and worked for the railroad before serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean occupation from 1946 to 1948. He operated steam locomotives in Korea as a 19-year old sergeant. After returning from service, he attended college in Minnesota under the G.I. Bill. He was recalled during the Korean War and trained to operate diesel locomotives before being assigned to Korea in 1951. However, before the diesels arrived, he was asked to establish a teletype message center in Seoul. He returned from service in 1951 and graduated from college in 1954.

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    Les Jacoby was born in 1928 in Minnesota and worked for the railroad before serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean occupation from 1946 to 1948. He operated steam locomotives in Korea as a 19-year old sergeant. After returning from service, he attended college in Minnesota under the G.I. Bill. He was recalled during the Korean War and trained to operate diesel locomotives before being assigned to Korea in 1951. However, before the diesels arrived, he was asked to establish a teletype message center in Seoul. He returned from service in 1951 and graduated from college in 1954.

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    724th Lesjacoby

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    Les Jacoby was born in 1928 in Minnesota and worked for the railroad before serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean occupation from 1946 to 1948. He operated steam locomotives in Korea as a 19-year old sergeant. After returning from service, he attended college in Minnesota under the G.I. Bill. He was recalled during the Korean War and trained to operate diesel locomotives before being assigned to Korea in 1951. However, before the diesels arrived, he was asked to establish a teletype message center in Seoul. He returned from service in 1951 and graduated from college in 1954.

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    Les Jacoby
    Photo taken in Pusan,Korea, 1947 (19 years old ) Les (Lester A.) Jacoby was born on a farm near Wabasha, Minnesota, on May 7, 1928. He is the eldest of eleven children (seven girls; four boys), graduated from St. Felix High School in Wabasha in 1945, and then worked for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad before his U.S. Army service. Army service, after Infantry basic at Ft. McClellan, Alabama, took him to Korea for 19 1/2 months in the 1946-48 Korean occupation period. He served with United States Army Military Government In Korea (USAMGIK), 30th Transportation Corps, Traffic Regulation Group (30th TC, TRG), and the 790th Transportation Railroad Operating Battalion (790th TROB). With the latter group, he was a 19-year old Sgt. operating steam locomotives during a crisis period. Among the locomotives he operated was U.S. Army General Pershing No. 101, which served in three wars, and is now one of the "treasures" at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Les returned to civilian life and enrolled at the College of St. Thomas (now University of St. Thomas ) in St. Paul, Minnesota, under the G.I. Bill. He was recalled for military service in the Korean War, as he enrolled for his Junior year, reported to Fort Eustis, Virginia, and then was sent to Fort Meade, Maryland, to work with Baltimore and Ohio Railroad civilian personnel in Baltimore for several months learning how to operate diesel locomotives. He was then qualified to be both a military steam and diesel railroad locomotive engineer. He was assigned to the 724th TROB for shipment to Korea in the Spring of 1951. Thirty-nine specially built U.S. Army GM V-8 800 hsp. diesels were sent over to replace rolling stock that had been destroyed. Les was slated to play a key role with the operating crews. However, before the diesels arrived by ship, he was requested by the CO of all military rail operations in Korea, the 3rd Transportation Military Railway Service (3rd TMRS), to establish a teletype switchboard and message center operation in a proposed 3rd TMRS Advance Headquarters in Seoul. (Les had served with the CO during their previous service in Korea.) As the front lines stabilized in later 1951, the main headquarters in Taegu moved north to join the small force that had established advance headquarters in badly war damaged Seoul. Les rotated back to the States in late 1951, resumed his Junior year in college in early 1952, and graduated in 1954. The years since were spent in the financial field in Detroit, and predominantly Minneapolis. Les, wife Beverly, and high school age only child Jeanne, moved to the warmer climes of Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1983. Unfortunately Beverly died in 1993, as Jeanne was starting her last year of law school. Currently Les is the proud grandfather of two grandsons.

    Les Jacoby- 1999 service history submitted to National Railroad Museum pg 1 pg 2

    Service History - 1971 pg 1 pg 2

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