helmmerryJamestown (CSi) Korean War Historian Merry Helm will speark at the statewide Korean War Vet’s 25th Annual Meeting in Jamestown, at the All Vets Club in Jamestown on Saturday October 18, 2014, at 4-p.m.

Ms. Helm will read from her recently published first volume of the history of the Korean War, Prairie Boys At War.

She will sign and have her books for sale after the reading.

This three-volume series tells the history of the Korean War primarily through the experiences of more than 400 combat warriors, airmen, and navy frogmen, most of whom were from ND, SD, MN, IA, NE and MT. Most were decorated for heroism, and a troubling number remain missing in action.　

What sets this book apart from other Korean War history books is that many of the men Merry writes about fought and/or died in little-known battles. Their stories require deep research, locating battle survivors, finding family members, and providing accounts that never made it into existing history books.　

Merry Helm is the recent recipient of the 2014-15　General and Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway Military History Research Grant, bestowed by the U.S. Army Military History Institute (Army War College) to assist with further research for the Prairie Boy series.

Helm is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker and researcher who has written more than a thousand history-based radio scripts for Dakota Datebook, a popular daily program on Prairie Public Radio. She also worked as a screenwriter in the movie industry from 1994 to 2008. The 24th Infantry Division Association bestowed on her an honorary lifetime membership in 2009, after her research helped secure a posthumous Medal of Honor for Master Sergeant Woodrow Wilson Keeble, a Dakota Sioux warrior, and she now serves as the association’s historian.

She lives with her husband Roger Gress in Fargo, ND, and honors Korean War veterans throughout the northern prairies by engaging in book tours and speaking engagements.

For more information about the event, call the Vet’s Club at 701-252-8994.