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...consider voting the Democratic ticket is beyond the grasp of many Canadians. Mr. Truman's continued attacks on Ike are, in my opinion, very unfair, considering the poor way in which he has run his present Government. Why doesn't Ike blast back with larger caliber ammo...
Battle Is the Test. In some counterattacks, South Koreans fought to the top with rifle fire and grenades, used bayonets, knives, rocks and fists when their ammo was gone. Sometimes the hand-to-hand fighting was illuminated by searchlights and flares. In darkness, the ROKs identified a man as friend or foe by yanking his cap off and feeling his head; if his head was shaved, he was Chinese...
...attacks showed that all the generator houses at three power sites had received direct hits, presumably smashing most of the Japanese-built generators beyond repair (even if the Reds had the spare parts). Air intelligence officers believed that hundreds of small North Korean factories (making small arms, small-caliber ammo, grenades, bayonets, uniforms, canteens, shoes) and ordnance shops (repairing trucks, tanks, artillery and locomotives) had been shut down, and that the enemy's radar net had been forced to switch to auxiliary generators, which are at the mercy of fuel deliveries...
Chinese lurking in the shadows tried to decoy U.S. litter-bearers by calling, "Medic, medic!" but their accents were unconvincing. One medic, Pfc. Carl Francis of Versailles, Ohio, fired his carbine until he was out of ammo, then ran. Three Chinese ran after him, and one threw a grenade. It exploded close behind him, hurling him unconscious into the mud. Despite the lurking Chinese, whom they could hear chirping like crickets, another medic and a lieutenant crawled out and rescued Francis. He had four grenade fragments in his back...
Though fearless in her frontline social work, Pepita admits to one great terror: "Of mice and rats I have a loathing." At the sight of a Korean rodent she is likely to shout and climb atop the nearest ration or ammo box. Chic in the best French tradition, Pepita admits to 38 years (the chivalrous French have omitted her age from the battalion records), is pleased that no one in Korea has made a pass at her. Says she: "They are so very correct, always. It is all one family, and I am their sister. Oh, they are so fine...