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...many an officer of the First Division in Korea, actual service in the line often seemed less important than training exercises the division was running along the coast every time it managed to wheedle enough ships from the Navy: battalion-size assault landings calculated to extinguish the defensive heresies picked up in combat, and to remind troops of the appetite for headlong attack expected of them in their kind of war. The discouraging stalemates and attrition of Korea, in a word, had only whetted the most gleaming weapon the Marine Corps carries when it is panoplied for war: the quietly...
...battalion of Marines is afloat in the Mediterranean, ready for any fire alarm. A battalion of Marines has just completed Arctic exercises in Labrador-for no one knows where Marines might go next. Besides the First Division in Korea, the corps has two trained divisions, each with its air arm, waiting stateside for trouble-the Second at Camp Lejeune, N.C., the Third at Camp Pendleton (see color pages), Calif. Boot camps at Parris Island, S.C. and San Diego are hup-reeping steadily away at rebuilding civilian youths to the sunburned, stiff-backed Marine mold, and pumping them into the service...
...bird's-eye approach to art. His bright abstractions have a rarefied upper-air look, almost as if they were terrain studies done from 30,000 ft. There is good reason for this. Lee Mullican discovered his personal art style as a member of a topographical battalion in World War II- drawing operations maps from aerial photographs...
Meanwhile De Lattre's successor, sad-eyed General Raoul Salan, had dispatched a battalion of paratroopers to the trouble spot. They were dropped on a hill post near Nghialo but were quickly surrounded. In a heroic, exhausting, five-day march over the high ridges, bypassing Communists in the valleys, they made their way to the Black River. They had started carrying their wounded on bamboo stretchers, but when the litter carriers had no strength left, the wounded were left to their fate. The battalion chaplain stayed behind with them...
Twelve big R.A.F. transports landed at Nairobi, capital of Kenya Colony, one night last week, and set down the ist Battalion (800 men) of Britain's Lancashire Fusiliers. From adjoining Tanganyika and Uganda hurried a battalion and two companies of the King's African Rifles. H.M.S. Kenya, an 8,000-ton cruiser, put a detachment of marines ashore at Mombasa, Kenya's only modern harbor...