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...when "Functionalism!" is the war cry, the circular tray has certainly fallen early on the battlefield, Let us give it a quick burial. Caldwell Titcomb...
Recently the strains of Star Dust rolled out over a valley from a ridge which the G.I.s had taken just twelve hours before. Under the eyes of the tootling musicians, the Communist dead were still being removed from the battlefield...
...boom in helicopters was set off by their breathtaking rescue work in Korea. In eight months, the "flying egg beaters" plucked 1,700 wounded and stranded men off the battlefield, saving them from death or capture. Commanding officers have found helicopters a smooth, swift substitute for the jolting jeep for front-line tours. Last week the helicopters found another customer. The Army, hitherto restricted to small craft (under 4,000 pounds), got permission to fly the big copters, will form transport companies with 23 helicopters each, specially equipped to carry troops in amphibious, mountain and jungle warfare...
...Korea. At Taegu's bloody "bowling alley," John Hersey Michaelis (rhymes with regale us), better known as "Mike," and his redoubtable 27th Infantry (Wolfhound) Regiment, now better known as "The Fire Brigade," fought bravely and brilliantly to help hold the Pusan perimeter. Sinewy Mike Michaelis won a battlefield promotion to full colonel, and the D.S.C. for "extraordinary heroism" under fire...
...second time West Pointer Michaelis had won a temporary eagle. In World War II, he jumped with the 502nd Parachute Infantry of the 101st Division on the Normandy beachhead, took command when his superior was killed, won battlefield promotion to colonel. He was wounded twice in Holland, but managed to leave the hospital in time for the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, he was aide to Chief of Staff Dwight Eisenhower. On leaving the Pentagon, Ike wrote Mike how proud he had been to "have had as aide a sterling young combat officer...