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...Chinese tried to surrender to Major General Clark Ruffner, pugnacious commander of the U.S. 2nd Division. "This guy stepped out of the woods," said Ruffner, "and walked up to my jeep with his hands in the air. I couldn't stop to fool with him, so I motioned him to sit down beside the road and wait for the approaching column. He did. The last I saw of him, he was still squatting there waiting for someone to take...
Early last week, apparently not satisfied that the valiant U.S. 2nd Division (TIME, May 28) was impregnable, the Chinese were still feeling it out with probing attacks, which were beaten off.Farther east, they attacked R.O.K. units and as usual forced them to give ground. Van Fleet sent the U.S. 3rd Division (which he had apparently held in reserve) to the aid of the ROKs, and the 3rd stopped the Reds in their tracks. Then the Communists began a retreat which by week's end seemed to be a rout...
Much of the havoc wrought on the attacking Chinese last fortnight was caused by the U.S. 2nd Division's 23rd Regiment, commanded by Colonel John F. Chiles of Independence, Mo. This week, the Peking radio wishfully announced that John Chiles had been captured. Recalling the memorable denial of his fellow Missourian, Mark Twain, the colonel, snug in his command post on the east-central front, resisted the temptation to say that the Peking report was "greatly exaggerated." Said he, simply: " Tain't true...
Through the tent flaps, walking or on litters, came men of the 23rd and 38th Infantry Regiments (2nd Division). They had fought their way out of Chinese encirclement in the rain-shrouded mountains and muddy valleys to the north. They had been coming in all day, and now it was midnight, and still they came, blinking and squinting, out of the night...
...them rose to general-officer rank. Among V.M.I. alumni now on the Korean front: Lieut. General Lemuel C. Shepherd, commander of the Fleet Marine Force in the Pacific; Lieut. General Edward M. Almond, commander of the X Corps; Major General Clark L. Ruffner, commander of the 2nd Division (see WAR IN ASIA...