Word: bayonetings
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...crowd booed, showered the convoy with firecrackers, bricks and stones, called out, "You lousy finks," "Why the hell aren't you in Korea?" Out of the cars tumbled frightened-looking young Guardsmen, summoned that day from their jobs in grocery stores and gas stations. Each Guardsman had his bayonet fixed. The crowd inched backwards. Some in the front row of the mob were nicked by bayonets, and several Guardsmen were felled by bricks and by ball bearings fired from slingshots. Around the corner, several young vandals lit and tossed red railroad flares atop the apartment house; Cicero firemen braved...
...traps dug across the roads, determined counterattacks. Thousands of Chinese filtered back into the top of the lost "iron triangle" which they had left two weeks before. There were bloody clashes. One piece of high ground there changed hands five times in one day. U.N. infantrymen charging with fixed bayonets were met by bayonet-wielding Chinese. On the eastern front, the Reds were firing deadly artillery barrages, mostly at night. Some Eighth Army officers expected a Chinese offensive on June 25, the anniversary of the war. The day came & went without any offensive, but the Chinese marked it by hard...
...rifle and the bayonet are still the most important weapons the Army has ... I want [the Marines] to be able to march 20 miles, the last five at double time, and then be ready to fight...
...exposed eastern flank. For 30 hours an infantry platoon of the 3rd Division, commanded by ist Lieut. Harry E. Sutton, 30, of The Bronx, beat off enemy attacks, refused to retreat even when part of the U.S. line was overrun. Lieutenant Sutton won the Silver Star for leading a bayonet charge which dug out the enemy and restored the position. Greater honor, perhaps, than the Silver Star was the fact that his fellow soldiers and superior officers referred to the position, in accounts of the evacuation, as "Sutton's Ridge...
Surprised, the Communists began a fighting withdrawal, threw one battalion into the path of the Foreign Legion to buy time. But French officers took their German Legionnaires on into the Communist machine-gun and mortar fire, finally into a bayonet charge. When the Legionnaires reached the Communist line, they found that the Reds had pulled back, taking their wounded with them. Four times through the heat of the day the cursing, green-clad Legionnaires, red with sweat and black with paddy mud, made their attacks. Each time the Reds withdrew. To the south, French soldiers crossed neck-deep streams under...