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...less eloquently than many others. "I just feel," he said, "that the things I believe in can't go on under a Communist regime." More tangibly, however, than those of the others, the things in which "Hedge" Underwood believed were symbolized for him right there on the battlefield. Two miles west of Seoul's center stands Chosen Christian University, founded by Hedge's own grandfather and namesake, Horace Grant Underwood, one of the first Protestant missionaries to Korea...
...story of a New Zealand infantry outfit on the Italian mountain front. Mostly it is about a single platoon, and it concentrates on a single squad. It is written by a New Zealand schoolteacher who fought in the infantry for three years, was wounded and commissioned on the battlefield. He writes about his bruised, battle-numbed foot soldiers with enormous compassion and an understanding that shades into love...
...Dead. Michaelis (rhymes with quick hail us) had been in tight spots before. He took part in the Normandy assault, won a battlefield promotion to full colonel. During the airborne invasion of Holland in September 1944, he jumped at the head of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, was wounded twice in three days. During the Battle of the Bulge, he was chief of staff of the 101st...
When he arrived in Korea to take command of the 27th, Michaelis had reverted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. A few days later, he had won his second battlefield promotion to full colonel. This time it looked as if he would keep his silver eagles. Said one of his sergeants thoughtfully : "The colonel, he's going to be a big man in this Army-or a dead...
...skirling of the pipers has led Scotsmen into many a battle in many a faraway land. Last week kilted pipers led Scotsmen and Englishmen toward a new battlefield. From Hong Kong 1,500 men of the ist Battalion of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders and the ist Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment boarded a British carrier for Korea in answer to General MacArthur's request for immediate ground reinforcements for his forces in Korea (TIME...