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Seoul had been heavily damaged last autumn when, after MacArthur's amphibious stroke at Inchon, the Marines and the 7th Infantry Division took it against savage North Korean resistance. This time there was more damage, from hundreds of shells hurled by U.N. artillery from the south bank of the Han. The Bun Chon shopping district, not badly mauled last autumn, was now flattened. Ambassador John J. Muccio's official residence had taken two more direct hits. The great red- painted, brass-studded gates of the embassy compound were leveled and buried in a welter of rubble. None...
Some generals are music-minded, others not. The music-minded commander takes great interest in his outfit's band, believes firmly in its morale value. By last week Major General Claude B. Ferenbaugh, who took command of the 7th Division in January, had proved himself the most music-minded general in Korea...
Major General Claude B. Ferenbaugh, 51, commander of 7th Division: West Point, 1918; pre-World War II service in Hawaii and Philippines; operations officer of II Corps in Africa, 1943; assistant commander, 83rd Division, in Europe; chief of staff, Operation Sandstone (atomic tests), 1947-48; commander, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii...
...Cavalry Division, is deputy commander of the Fourth Army at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Major General John Church, ex-commander of the 24th Division, is the new boss of the Army's famed Infantry School at Fort Benning. Major General David Barr, former commander of the 7th Division, is now commander of the Armored School at Fort Knox, Ky. Major General Laurence Keiser, former commander of the 2nd Division, will direct the Infantry Replacement Center at Indiantown Gap, Pa. Major General William B. Kean, former commander of the 25th Division, will command the III Corps at Camp Roberts, Calif...
...wars has there been such close contact and cooperation between artillery and infantry. Major General David Barr, back in Washington last week after leading the 7th Division in Korea, gave a field commander's encomium: "The atmosphere in Korea is that there is nothing the artillery won't or can't do; no place the artillery...