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...Note of Urgency. The 5th General Assembly opened in a more urgent and hopeful mood than previous U.N. Assemblies. Outgoing Assembly President Carlos P. Romulo kept his farewell speech brief. Said he: "Mere words are a cruel mockery while men are dying for the sake of peace...
Thus Colonel Oliver Prince Smith, commanding the 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division, described the dawn of his first battle in World War II. His naval escort consisted of six little PT boats mounting nothing stronger than 20-mm. guns. Smith improvised his own artillery preparation by firing the guns of his tanks while they were still offshore in the assault craft. Since air support from Army planes failed to arrive, Smith's air support consisted of one Piper cub which dropped eight hand grenades behind the enemy beach. In spite of these crudities, the Willaumez operation...
...Thank You, Sir." It was early 1944 when Smith got into the war as a colonel commanding the 1st Division's 5th Regiment (part of his command in Korea today). By then the 1st had long since finished its dreadful battle for Guadalcanal and was floundering in the mud and rain of New Britain...
...crack 1st, 2nd and 3rd Divisions (now northwest of Taegu). Next are troops who had served before with the Chinese Communist armies. They are well-trained and possibly the most hardened troops of the lot. They comprise the bulk of the 4th (now in the southwest near Yongsan), 5th (at Pohang) and 6th (fighting fiercely near Haman) Divisions. The third class of North Korean troops are hastily conscripted reserves, both North and South Koreans...
...chewed-up 6th Division had been reinforced, the Reds quickly recovered from Task Force Kean's "spoiling attack" (TIME, Aug. 21) and hammered again at the approaches to Masan, the main gateway to Pusan. But this time, no overly expensive spoiling attack was needed to save Pusan. The 5th Regimental Combat Team and the 24th Regiment (the 25th Division's crack Negro outfit) struggled valiantly for upland vantage points called Battle Mountain and Sobuk Ridge. Half a dozen times the heights changed hands. At one stage the doughfeet were described as hanging on "by their toenails"-but they...