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...northwest Korea last week, an air-ground liaison officer attached to the U.S. 24th Division gave a nervous laugh as he listened to the radio chatter of Mustang pilots overhead. "Do not Josephine," the pilots cautioned one another. "Do not Josephine!" In Air Force parlance, "Do not Josephine" means "Don't use up all your ammunition on ground targets; you may need it to fight your way home...
Burning Mountains. Southwest of Unsan, the wheeling Red offensive carried to within 15 miles of Sinanju, a vital U.N. transportation and supply center, and threatened both the rear and right flank of the U.S. 24th Infantry Division. The 24th, which had pushed one spearhead to within 14 miles of the mouth of the Yalu River, promptly pulled back nearly 50 miles to the west coast town of Chongju...
...Armored Division. 4. 24th Division. Division...
...during August Osborne went up to the Korean front to be with the battered 19th Regiment of the 24th Infantry Division. The 19th had taken a terrific beating during its long, well-fought holding action. Osborne had with him a copy of the current issue of TIME (Aug. 14), which carried Correspondent Frank Gibney's story about the 19th Regiment. While talking to" Colonel Ned Moore', Osborne gave him the issue. It was the first account of his outfit the colonel had seen. He read it, and expressed his surprise and pleasure at the credit...
Recapturing Taejon, the 24th Division found the bodies of 40 American soldiers thrown into long trenches in the Taejon prison yard. There was one survivor, Sergeant Carey H. Weiner of Hickman Mills, Mo. Wounded only in the hand, he had feigned death, lain in the trench for two days. Weiner said that before pulling out of Taejon the Communists tied the prisoners together, pushed them into the trenches and shot them as they crouched against the sides. The Communists then shoveled dirt on the bodies. As the Taejon area was searched, the bodies of 5,000 or 6,000 Koreans...