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Last week sudden death came to the Little Bulldog. From his command post he was riding to the front north of Seoul, to present unit citations to the 24th Division (first in Korea) and the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade, and a Silver Star to his son, Captain Sam Walker, a 24th Division combat officer. A three-ton truck driven by a South Korean pulled out of line in a southbound column, directly in the path of Walker's jeep. The general's driver could not avoid a collision. Walker was thrown to the road. He was dead when...
...attack sector extended some 70 miles across Korea's waist eastward from a point on the Yellow Sea below Chongju. The U.S. 2nd, 24th and 25th Divisions jumped off, alongside the R.O.K. 1st, 6th, 7th and 8th and the British 27th Brigade. The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division was held in reserve. The offensive involved about 100,000 Allied troops against about 125,000 of the enemy, mostly Chinese...
Other football winners last week: ¶ Unbeaten Oklahoma over Colorado, 27-18, for its 27th victory in a row. ¶ Unbeaten California over favored Washington, 14-7, to keep the Golden Bears rolling toward the Rose Bowl. ¶ Unbeaten Kentucky, on its record the top team in the South, over Florida, 40-6. ¶Unbeaten Princeton over Colgate, 45-7, for the Tigers' tenth in a row. ¶ Ohio State, beaten only once this year, over Northwestern, 32-0, in a demonstration of the touchdown power (averaging 43 points a game) that has won Ohio a ranking...
...Target. U.N. forces struggled to recover their balance, and partially succeeded. In the northwest the trapped R.O.K. regiments fought their way into the clear, though with some losses to men and equipment. The R.O.K. ist Division was holding Unsan against punishing enemy attacks, and the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade was again making progress toward Sinuiju...
...accordance with Moslem dietary laws, contains no pork, was being distributed to the 5,190-man Turkish brigade soon to join the Filipinos at Kumchon. Regular supplies of tea had to be sent far up Korea's west coast where British and Australian soldiers of the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade were battling their way toward the Yalu River...