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Such soft talk showed that the Communists might really want peace in Korea-if the price is right. For the future, it inspired as many misgivings as hopes. The Kremlin's fixed tactics are to slash weakness with armor, to sap strength with wiles. Out of the MacArthur hearing, the Kremlin learned that the end of U.S. patience was near. The Kremlin's obvious advantage is to unwind U.S. determination, take the urgency out of the West's rearmament. So the Kremlin whispered tantalizingly of peace. That is the time of peril-the time of the Truce...
Since the North Koreans' Russian-made T-34 tank disappeared from the battle, allied armor in Korea has had nothing much to contend with except mortar and small-arms fire. U.N. armored columns thrust boldly into enemy territory, without the infantry screens which-according to the book-are needed to put hostile antitank gunners out of action. Early this month, a U.S. tank force probing toward the Reds' "iron triangle" suddenly ran into killing antitank fire. Ordnance officers quickly identified the source: Russia's highly effective 57-mm. antitank...
...workers stripped the armor from destroyed allied and Communist tanks to use as bearing plates, delivered 400 tons of gravel to the bridge site, and dredged 500 tons of sand from the Naktong to make sandbags. For more than two months the work went on, at night under the light of powerful searchlights supplied by Tandy's engineers...
Before the week was out, determined U.S. patrols were ranging north of strongly held defenses, harassing the enemy's efforts to continue his offensive. One bold U.S. armored column-far north of the main lines-was ambushed by angry Chinese who swarmed all over it, trying to destroy the tanks with pole and satchel charges. The U.S. tanks fired on one another with machine-gun bullets, which did not penetrate the armor but killed the Chinese on top. Some of the Reds were blown to bits by their own explosives. When the tanks finally withdrew, they were covered with...
...dusk approached and the Chinese did not let up, Hawkins from his plane ordered the battalion to strip and abandon the two tanks that were still stuck, and start back. As the column headed south, Chinese jumped out of foxholes and attacked the U.S. armor on foot. Some 30 Chinese were killed...