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...South Koreans had had their U.S. advisers at elbow. Some time ago, hardbitten Brigadier General William (Bill) Roberts, commander of KMAG (the U.S. Korean Military Advisory Group), had said to his men: "Don't fool yourselves. If war comes, you fellows are going to be the battalion and regimental commanders of this army." Unfortunately, last week Bill Roberts was out of the country, headed for the U.S. His subordinates in Korea may have been ordered by Washington to evade capture at all costs. In any case, the U.S. coaches were not on hand to coach in the thick...
...38th parallel. U.S., British and Australian naval forces, including carriers and cruisers, were committed to action in the Korean theater; U.S. warships shelled shore installations at the Red-seized port of Inchon. Douglas MacArthur ordered the 24th Division, equipped with tanks and artillery, to Korea by sea. One battalion of the 24th was flown to Pusan and shipped to the Kum River front by rail. Major General William F. Dean, the 24th's commander, was appointed commanding general of all U.S. forces in Korea, with Church as his senior GHQ liaison officer. Meanwhile four enemy columns were reported moving...
...Pampango. Across the room a hand is raised, another & another, until ten or twelve are up. Everyone else in the room stares at the men with their hands up; two or three arms are lowered again. The room is hot with unspoken tension. But the mayor and the battalion officers look pleased as they declare the meeting closed. With obvious relief, the men of Bamban drift away...
...province of Tarlac, north of Manila, where many thousands have left their barrios and crowded into towns. Now some 70 representative citizens-a few small landowners, many tenants, a few barrio lieutenants or deputy mayors-have come to the town hall to hear speeches by officers of the 5th battalion combat team. The battalion surgeon, a young major who grew up near Bamban, is speaking in Pampango, the liquid dialect of Pampanga and Tarlac provinces. I almost never hear the word "Hukbalahap." Speakers use euphemisms for the Huks-"The New Faces," "The Mistaken People" or "Our Friends Outside...
...Many Huks, Many Huks." Lieut. Colonel Jesus Vargas, commander of the 5th battalion, is addressing a very important meeting, His hearers are some 400 field and factory workers of the Hacienda Luisita near San Miguel, a huge sugar estate which is owned by a Spanish combine called "Tabacalera" and is managed by a Spaniard, one Miguel Franco. The Hacienda has its own private police and detachment of constabulary, and many people from outlying barrios have moved within its boundaries. It is also famous as one of the first estates where a rural union was organized before the war, and nowadays...