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Dixieland tunes played by a U.S. Army band piped the 1st Battalion of Britain's Gloucestershire Regiment ashore at Pusan, Nov. 7, 1950. Last week a U.S. band at the same dock played a solemn "God Save the King" as the 1st Gloucestershires boarded the homeward-bound troopship Empire Fowey. Of the original 600 men & officers who landed at Pusan last year only 120 were left...
TOWARD morning a runner came up from the battalion and said he had heard something over the radio at C.P. about the U.N. making some sort of offer the Chinese might take. "Could amount to ceasefire, if the Chinks go for it," said the runner. "If the Chinks go for it," he repeated...
...expected to have 30 divisions in fairly good shape, they had the skeletons of only a dozen, perhaps 15. Of these, only the six divisions sent over by the U.S. stood anywhere near fighting trim. Most of the other divisions in NATO's army had only one battalion of artillery apiece where six apiece were planned. There should have been 2,500 U.S. tanks on hand, but there were only 500. So busy were SHAPE'S planners at the complicated task of meshing distant needs in materials, factory construction, production and manpower that too little was being done...
...masseurs--and was practicing both trades when the Germans invaded Belgium in 1940. "It was then that I made the smartest move of my life," Wolpe recalls. "I had read Mein Kampf and knew I didn't stand a chance of escaping, so I volunteered for a German labor battalion. They never suspected that...
...Korean war turned Cinderella into a fairy princess. The helicopter's ability to take off from anywhere and to land almost anywhere made it just the thing for evacuating the wounded, supplying isolated positions, carting specialists and brass around. Most recent and spectacular helicopter mission: landing a full battalion of marines with their weapons on a mountainous front-line sector (TIME...