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...they fled. Seven guns were destroyed before a concentrated enemy fire pinned them down for the night. In the morning, Dodd took his men on up to the summit and won it once and for all. ¶Master Sergeant Ernest R. Kouma, 31, tank commander, Company A, 72nd Tank Battalion. He is a farm boy from Dwight, Neb., fought in the Battle of the Bulge. On the night of August 31 on the Nak-tong River Line, Sergeant Kouma's tank was surrounded by 500 screaming Koreans. While the infantry pulled back, Kouma drilled round after round of cannon...
Commanded by Lieut. Colonel Jaime Polania Puyo, a veteran of 22 years in the Colombian army, the battalion has been training for four months in mountain country around Bogotá to get ready for Korea's rugged terrain. The troops are equipped with U.S. Army uniforms and materiel (paid for with Colombian cash), and have been checked out on North American infantry weapons by twelve Spanish-speaking U.S. Army noncoms...
...gallant, bloody stand of a battalion of Britain's crack Gloucestershire Regiment* in battle against the Chinese (TIME, May 7), which brought home to Britons, as nothing had before, that they were in fact at war with a regime they had been trying to appease...
...Last week Lieut. General James Van Fleet awarded the Presidential Unit Citation, highest U.S. group award, to Sergeant Major Thomas Blackford, C Company, representing the 1st Battalion of the Gloucesters (see cut). Said the citation: "By holding their positions and fighting fiercely above & beyond the call of duty, this magnificent battalion was surrounded and cut off by overwhelming Chinese forces. . . . Their epic stand will go down as one of the most valiant in modern times...
...Remer, then a major commanding a Berlin Guard battalion, was ordered by superior officers, who were conspiring to assassinate Hitler, to seize certain government buildings in Berlin. Instead, Remer tipped off Goebbels, who had the conspirators arrested...