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...read from a prepared statement. A plain, almost schoolmasterish figure in spite of his crisp summer tans and combat ribbons, Omar Bradley, topflight battlefield general (in Europe he commanded more combat troops than any military man in U.S. history), was Witness No. 3 in the MacArthur hearing...
...armored rescue forces broke up an enemy roadblock in the 2nd's rear, and helped the division re-form a solid line below Chunchon. On the fourth day, enemy pressure slackened while the Chinese removed their thousands of dead and wounded from the battlefield. At week's end, they attacked again with 30,000 men. The onslaught was broken...
...comrades would obviously like to gain at the conference table what they seemed unable to win on the battlefield...
Army Chaplain Rudolf Albert Renfer had just finished a Sunday battlefield sermon somewhere in Germany when shrapnel from enemy artillery put him out of World War II. Two years ago, Presbyterian Renfer became professor of church history and missions at nondenominational, fundamentalist Dallas Theological Seminary. But when the Korean war broke out, he began worrying about the chaplaincy again -a branch of the ministry that looked as though it would be around for a long time...
...much like the plains of northern France, where he won his first fame as a combat commander; it is more like mountainous Greece, where as U.S. "adviser" to the Greek army he licked the Red guerrillas. But it is like both in that it is a hard-fought battlefield; and that, as the Army discovered rather late in Van Fleet's career, is the kind of place where he can make the most of an extraordinary talent as a troop commander...