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...Chiefs decided; in 1947, it turned command of the theater over to the Air Force. The primary enemy thus became enemy airplanes, the primary defensive position, U.S. air bases. Let Russia or anyone else slip ground troops-airborne or seaborne-into such "islands of tundra" as Nome or Point Barrow, said the airmen, and you could isolate them like the mighty Japanese bases of Truk and Rabaul were isolated in the Pacific war. You would bomb the planes and shelters and leave them all shivering in the cold with no place to march to. Don't make U.S. airplanes...
...point, U.S. marines driving in to Seoul from the southwest were almost trapped by North Koreans. They were saved by the caution and good sense of the commander of the point company, Captain Robert Barrow of St. Francisville, La. Barrow took his men across the Seoul-Mukden railroad tracks, deployed them on a ridge and refused to advance past an apparently deserted group of buildings and a residential sector until he had scouted the ground...
...Barrow's men spotted North Korean troops hiding in the heavily sandbagged buildings, waiting for the marines to pass them; had they done so the North Koreans might have caught several battalions between their fire and that of the defenders in the city's center. Barrow called for an air strike and an artillery barrage. For 18 hours U.S. planes rained rockets, explosive bombs and napalm fire bombs on the area in front of Barrow's outfit. First scores, then hundreds, then thousands of Red soldiers were seen running from their place of ambush. When the holocaust...
Died. The Rev. Dr. William Barrow Pugh, 61, since 1938 Stated Clerk of the Northern Presbyterians' General Assembly; in a truck-automobile collision; near Thermopolis, Wyo. For his wartime services as chairman of the General Commission on Army and Navy Chaplains, Dr. Pugh was awarded the U.S. Medal for Merit...
Slit trenches and new antiaircraft batteries were appearing at many an Alaskan airfield. The Air Force was about to put a dozen men adrift on the ice, 200 miles north of Point Barrow, and leave them there for two months to study the tricks of keeping alive after bailing...