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...Gentile, 30, World War IPs "one man air force" (Franklin D. Roosevelt called him "Captain Courageous"); in the crash of a jet fighter he was piloting on a routine flight; near Washington, D.C. The Ohio-born son of Italian immigrants, Captain Gentile became the war's 7th ranking U.S. ace: he flew 182 combat missions, downed 19 Nazi planes. He leaves a wife and three young sons...
...Stop Marines. The first part of the battle was almost exclusively a marine show, although the marines were accompanied to safety by two 7th Infantry Division battalions (seriously depleted by losses). When the Chinese first struck in the Changjin area, Smith had two regiments at Yudam, west of the reservoir, and a third strung out along the road from Hagaru to the south. The Chinese hit the two regiments at Yudam with no less than three divisions, but wilted under counterattack. They next failed to knock out the headquarters garrison at Hagaru, which would have prevented the division from assembling...
...Destroy a Beachhead. After they reached the sea, the marines were promptly evacuated, and the 3rd and 7th Infantry Divisions deployed for the perimeter defense, with two R.O.K. divisions on the right. If the Chinese had had enough foresight (and the necessary artillery), they could have shelled Hungnam to ruins before the defense perimeter was erected and before the warships arrived. If they had attacked with a large and concentrated force at one point on the perimeter, they might have broken through to the port area. But they made no serious effort. On Friday, Dec. 15, 2,500 Chinese attacked...
...Army 7th Infantry Division...
...concentration of U.S. fire laid down on the enemy around the Hungnam evacuation perimeter dwarfed anything ever seen before in Korea. As the beachhead dwindled to a few square miles, with only rear guards of the 3rd and 7th Divisions fighting ashore, U.S. self-propelled guns, howitzers, heavy mortars and flak wagons put out a tremendous weight of metal per mile of front. Behind them, the Seventh Fleet's warships sent in their own barrage from the battleship Missouri (whose nine 16-in. guns can fire one-ton projectiles more than 20 miles) and from cruisers, destroyers and rocket...