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...General. But P.O.A.U. is still casting an uneasy eye around the armed services. The organization is currently checking into the possibility of undue Catholic pressure in the naming of the I Corps Artillery's post in Korea four years ago as Camp St. Barbara and the report that artillerymen there are calling themselves "St. Barbara's Own."* "This thing seems to be spreading almost like 'Kilroy was here,' " said P.O.A.U.'s Lowell this week, and then dropped an artilleryman's salvo into the camp of Senator John Kennedy. "If we had a Catholic President...
...Quemoy one of the most intense and longest-sustained artillery bombardments ever directed against a single objective. High point: the Communists fired 60,000 rounds from 300 guns on Sept. 11. The bombardment caused serious disruption on the supply beaches, smashed up two Chinese Nationalist airstrips, outgunned Nationalist artillerymen-but it had little effect on the morale of the dug-in Nationalist troops, many of them Formosans. As bombardment wore on, the Nationalists got emergency schooling from U.S. officers and noncoms on fast unloading techniques, deployed underwater demolition teams to blast out new beach approaches, used small LVTs pouring...
Rolling a 75-mm. howitzer over the Statehouse lawn, Rhode Island National Guard artillerymen positioned it for a 19-round inaugural salute to their new governor. Then, gun poised, the guardsmen waited, joining in the speculation that gripped the tiny state on New Year's Day: whether the salute when fired would honor Republican Christopher Del Sesto, 49, declared the winner by the board of elections (TIME, Dec. 31), or Democratic Governor Dennis J. Roberts, 53, who had suddenly challenged Del Sesto's narrow triumph in the State Supreme Court...
...move out in a motley armada of helicopters and transports that parachute their cargoes. For the French, the cost is not small - about 1,200 killed, wounded or missing - and the respite in infantry fighting brings no respite from the nerve-racking devil's clockwork of the Red artillerymen...
Both Sides of Battle. The Russians were worse than surprised. In the border units one man in three had a rifle; the few machine guns were vintage World War I. The Russian tanks actually outfought the Germans, then quickly ran out of gas and became sitting ducks for German artillerymen. For the Germans it was Poland and France all over again on a massive scale. Objectives were taken like clockwork, and Moscow beckoned. For the Russians, even the stunning defeats were not so crushing as Stalin's failure to do something about it. Where were his air "falcons...