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...state of Texas in protesting your March 9 statement that "the British" captured Von Rundstedt at Bad Tölz. General Von Rundstedt was captured at Bad Tölz, somewhat dramatically, by 2nd Lieut. Joseph E. Burke of St. Petersburg, Fla., then a platoon leader in the 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th ("Texas") Infantry Division . . . JOHN F. MORGAN Canton, Ohio...
...resistance), a few miles west of Chorwon on the western front. U.S. troops captured Old Baldy last May. Since then it has changed hands more than once, but-up to last week-it was held by units of the U.S. 7th Division, with South Americans of the Colombia battalion attached. Baldy had some value as an observation point, but it was vulnerable to Communist attack on three sides. Mostly it had prestige value: it was what some officers cynically call a "political hill...
...back to the MLR, to save casualties until they were in shape for a successful counterattack, too many of the 7th's units had tried to stand their ground, throwing in cooks and KPs and yelling for reinforcements. The long sitdown had made the Eighth Army sluggish. The battalion and company commanders were not prepared for quick emergency movement of their equipment and command posts. No corps or division command post had been moved for tactical reasons in nearly two years. Sluggishness could be seen in the movement of field pieces up to the front and in the handling...
Near him, a voice cried out: "Boy, I'm hurt!" Groping in the mud, Stanley found his battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Harry Clark Jr. of Columbus, Ga. With another G.I., Stanley carried the wounded colonel into a nearby bunker...
...division's officers and men are enjoying their life back of the lines. Said a junior officer: "It was really pretty thick of them, taking us out of our nice battle line. We had permanent buildings right up to brigade, and commodious bunkers, right up to battalion. The Black Watch officers' mess was in a bunker big enough to seat 30. Now we're piggin' it in these bloody training area tents." An Australian gunnery sergeant indicated he would like some fighting: "Our political blokes don't like...