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...Waegwan a few months ago, a corporal named Everett L. Elmore headed his boat across the bullet-torn Naktong River for the enemy-held shore. Mortar shells crashed alongside, machine-gun bullets stitched a pattern against its sides. Corporal Elmore rallied his panic-stricken passengers, delivered them to the beachhead, and went back for more. On his last trip, Corporal Elmore was mortally hit. He got the Bronze Star Medal-posthumously-an award for "heroic achievement" not deemed to be of sufficient degree to merit a Distinguished Service Cross or a Silver Star...
There is a bushel of fine war photography in the "Halls of Montezuma" and some suspenseful plot development from its director Lewis Milestone (whose "Salerno Beachhead" is playing down the street). Unfortunately, it tends to deify an individual whom I consider a damn fool and a type of thinking which could stand some careful serutiny, war threat or no war threat...
...more money from moving pictures last year than any other actor in Hollywood. The reason for his popularity seems to be his complete self-reliance. People like to associate themselves with the John Wayne of the movies because there is no problem too big, no woman too impregnable, no beachhead too well guarded for him to conquer...
...Times-Herald letter are absolutely false . . . No men were left on the beaches; and none died of battle injuries among the last ten ships between Hungnam and Pusan. No men waded to ships.* Final 150 troops were lifted from beach by LVTs. There was no fighting on beachhead or nearby departing ships on final day. Troops on last ten ships . . . have not been recommitted to front lines . . . Strongly recommend take exception to ethics employed by editor of newspaper in publicizing so distorted, scurrilous and irresponsible a letter without offering the Navy an opportunity to substantiate or deny...
...Destroy a Beachhead. After they reached the sea, the marines were promptly evacuated, and the 3rd and 7th Infantry Divisions deployed for the perimeter defense, with two R.O.K. divisions on the right. If the Chinese had had enough foresight (and the necessary artillery), they could have shelled Hungnam to ruins before the defense perimeter was erected and before the warships arrived. If they had attacked with a large and concentrated force at one point on the perimeter, they might have broken through to the port area. But they made no serious effort. On Friday, Dec. 15, 2,500 Chinese attacked...