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...atomic retaliation by the U.S. But the U.S. did not know (and the Kremlin knew it did not know) what to do about limited aggression. A vague doctrine of defending the perimeters of the free world was in the minds of U.S. leaders, and after the Communists crossed the 38th parallel, but not before, this violated line was considered part of the perimeter. The Administration was in a siege state of mind; it entered the Korean war to repair a breach in the wall...
Then came Marsh Childs, 26th; Hubie Marguire, 38th; Bruce Phillips, 44th; Frank Nahigian, 45th; and Bill Engs in the 46th spot...
Forces of Evil. Stevenson turned to Korea and the paramount issue of "peace and war." Said he: "We all know that when the Communists attacked across the 38th parallel, that was the testing point for freedom throughout the world . . . Sooner or later we would have had to fight, and the later we made our stand the bigger and harder the war would have been...
Lieut. Gennady Mishin, Soviet Air Force Serial No. 25054, is the only definitely identified Russian casualty of the Korean war. On Sept. 4, 1950 (eleven days before MacArthur's amphibious stroke at Inchon), Mishin's twin-engine bomber was shot down in the Yellow Sea, near the 38th parallel, by fighters from the U.S. carrier Valley Forge. A destroyer got Mishin's body from the wreckage before it sank. According to the U.S. report, the Red-starred Russian plane flew "toward the center of the U.N. [naval] formation in a hostile manner," eventually opening fire...
...winter of 1948, he was assigned to Korea. Caldwell and his Korean-speaking wife, a missionary's daughter, were stationed at Chunchon just below the 38th parallel. They set up a library, prepared films, staged puppet shows with messages that got across to illiterate Koreans. Caldwell is sure the 1948 election was "an enormous success," was shocked to find that in the U.S. it was widely criticized as undemocratic...