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Meanwhile, twelve miles southeast of the main battle theater, three Communist regiments attacked the small autonomous province of Phat Diem. The French threw in a parachute battalion to defend it against the Reds...
...Navy Crosses and was well on his way to becoming a legend of the Corps. He served with the "Horse Marines" at Peking, with the famed 4th Marines at Shanghai in the days of the Japanese occupation of China's metropolis. In World War II, he commanded a battalion and then a regiment of the ist Marine Division, fought from Guadal canal* to Peleliu, won two more Navy Crosses, was wounded seven times...
...Warrior of Liberation." Tsung's army crossed the Imjin last month. On May 15 it headed for the Han, to wipe out the U.N. bridgehead. The Manchurian farmer's battalion had twelve field pieces, and his platoon operated two of the 76-mm. pieces, with 60 rounds for each gun. Supplies of shells got up to the front pretty regularly...
Wang's outfit was in the rear; his buddies in advanced positions would have a different story to tell, but most are not around to tell it. The Chinese reinforcements never had a chance to move up. Wang saw perhaps one killed and two wounded in his own battalion by artillery, another 50 wounded and taken back north. He had not learned that in his area, one company of 120 was down to 40, another company had 30 wounded in strafing by U.N. planes. He did not see mound after mound with the epitaph: "Here lies a warrior...
...outfit from a U.S. training camp into the heat of the Italian and French campaigns. It tells the story largely in terms of a Texas-proud lieutenant (Van Johnson) whose Nisei men gradually overcome his prejudice against them. At the climax, the 442nd's rescue of a trapped battalion of the 36th (Texas) Infantry Division in France's Vosges Mountains, even Johnson's diehard, Jap-hating buddy (Don Haggerty) takes the Nisei to his bosom...