Word: 9th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, on the Iron Triangle's west face, the brave and weary ROK 9th Division was mopping up on White Horse Hill (TIME, Oct. 20). The South Koreans had found that they could hold the crest if they kept the Chinese off the neighboring knobs; and the enemy was holding by his fingernails only to three knobs, known as the Three Sisters. The Koreans tunneled under the Three Sisters, laid massive charges of TNT, and blew the knobs and most of the Chinese on them to smithereens. After that, White Horse seemed secure...
...engagement of 1952. After six days of inconclusive seesawing, the gallant ROKs had chewed up several Chinese regiments, and the enemy had lost, in killed & wounded, an estimated 10,000 men. South Korean losses, though not announced, were also high. Major General Kim Chong Oh, commander of the ROK 9th Division, proudly praised his men: "Their stand has been valiant and exemplary...
...spite of its 500,000 cards, the index is still not complete. In one day, a staff member may have to catalogue an 6th century statue, a 6th century painting, a 9th century illuminated manuscript, a 4th century funeral slab. He may have to catalogue each work in several different ways-by character, by scene (e.g., Christ teaching), by object (e.g., Solomon's Temple). Finally, he has to enter his information on one of 16 different types of cards-grey for textiles, brown for leather, white for sculpture...
...Batted for Canepa in 9th...
World War II: Was a hard combat leader in the South Pacific. As a colonel training the 9th Regiment, he kept up a relentless pace (often 18 hours a day); his insistence on perfection earned him the nickname, "Combat Ready." Every new marine got a talk from the C.O. Subjects: duty, selfdiscipline, religion (he is a devout Episcopalian). Became a brigadier general in 1943, then led the Cape Gloucester operation at New Britain. On Guam, his ist Provisional Marine Brigade led one of the beachhead assaults; on Okinawa, Major General Shepherd led his 6th Marine Division to its objective early...