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...first subcommittee was still grappling with Item 3 (supervision of armistice). Soon two subcommittees were grinding away under two tents at Panmunjom. This week, there rose one note of hope: the Reds turned over a list of U.N. prisoners, reportedly including Maj. Gen. William F. Dean of the 24th Division, missing since the fighting around Taejon in July...
...answering this criticism, Willoughby claims that he expected to encounter "the full force of Communist China at the end of the trail" but that restrictions on acrial reconnaisance flights prevented him from getting accurate estimates of Chinese forces until the Eighth Army first met the Chinese on November 24th. So our army was shoved into the ring like a blindfolded boxer. But British and Chinese Nationalist Intelligence had both acquired and passed on information on the Chinese forces by early September, so the implication is that Willoughby's intelligence service was incompetent and that he either ignored or failed...
...were expertly cut into live news reports from Washington. There was another filmed sequence of Presidential Candidate Robert Taft happily listening to a eulogistic speech by Senator Everett Dirksen, and some biting realism in a 15-minute documentary of a day in the life of Fox Co., 19th Regiment, 24th Division in Korea. Murrow's aim was to concentrate on soldiers' faces, and he accomplished it with shots of a regimental commander giving a welcoming lecture to a group of replacements, and a blanket-draped sergeant routing out his squad at reveille...
Last fortnight Van Fleet aimed three U.N. divisions-the U.S. 24th with Colombians attached, the South Korean 2nd and-6th-in an all-out attack on Kumsong. By last week the three converging divisions had narrowed the 22-mile jump-off front to less than eight miles, and a torrent of artillery fire had turned most of Kumsong into burning and smoking rubble. The infantrymen were so close that they could have looked down into the town, if the weather had been clear instead of thick. The Chinese had pulled out most of their men and guns. Some 800, left...
...commanders were jubilant over the Kumsong victory, but the slogging doughfeet of the 24th were not so cheerful. Cold rains lashed by freezing winds were giving them a foretaste of the Korean winter, which only a few old hands could remember from last year. Hundreds of G.I. bonfires dotted the countryside. Said a sergeant: "My feet are cold, my hands are cold and my neck is cold. And this is only October. I just hope I get out of here before winter...