Word: 45th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shone warm in Miami last week as real-estate men convened for the 45th annual convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. Nevertheless, there was a slight chill in the air; the real-estate men felt that the big building boom had passed its peak, though they still looked for plenty of business. Construction statistics had not started to decline; housing starts this year were still running ahead of 1951. But from the tales the realtors swapped, the sales of new houses across the country were softer than at any time since the war. Good houses still sold...
Then came Marsh Childs, 26th; Hubie Marguire, 38th; Bruce Phillips, 44th; Frank Nahigian, 45th; and Bill Engs in the 46th spot...
...hotting-up along the battlefront began casually enough. Concerned by a Communist buildup in forward areas, including much artillery, the Eighth Army stepped up its patrolling and redoubled its efforts to capture enemy prisoners for interrogation. In the west near Chorwon, elements of the U.S. 45th Division attacked and seized a T-shaped hill mass from where they could almost look down the enemy throats...
...night of April 4, a company-sized (120 men) patrol from the U.S. 45th Division ran into three platoons of Chinese. Both patrols had the same purpose: to snatch an enemy soldier or two for the intelligence officers to question. The ensuing skirmish was typical of dozens during the so-called "lull," which has cost the U.S. 200 to 250 casualties a week. The Eighth Army's Communique No. 938 reported it this way: "A U.N. patrol operating west of Chorwon engaged three enemy platoons at 2215 (10:15 p.m.), directed artillery and mortar fire on the enemy...
...last night on earth for Pfc. Marvin Brown, 20, of Greenstown, Ind., who had joined the 45th just two days before the division left Japan for Korea. When the Chinese attacked, he scrambled for a low dike. He was up and drawing a bead on enemy grenade throwers when a burp gun got him across the chest. His comrades saw him slumped against the dike with his head showing, then silhouetted in the brief red glare of a grenade. When they reached him, he was dead...