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...Police. Meanwhile, a full-fledged battle raged in Bangkok. Women seized their children, and cart ponies reared in their traces as the first detachment of soldiers came racing down Ploen Chit Road with bayonets fixed. As twilight fell, artillery fire was rocking the city streets. The navy established a beachhead at Lumphini Amusement Park. The army dug in at the Sports Club...
...right flank. Last week, hopeful dispatches mentioned the possibility of cutting off this salient by a thrust from the Pyonggang area north to the port of Wonsan. On the map, another allied move seemed to be possible: an invasion of the Wonsan area from the sea. If a beachhead could be established there, the base of the enemy salient could be squeezed from both sides and .would probably become untenable. It would also stand a good chance of rolling up to the Reds' next best defense line across the peninsula, which runs from Wonsan to a point below Pyongyang...
...instead of going after Apericles, attack Turkey. The U.S. and the U.N. go to Turkey's aid. The war gets difficult and General Legion, the American commander of the U.N. forces in Turkey, proposes to blockade Piraeus, the port of Athens, and to help General Apericles establish a beachhead on the mainland and hit the flank of the Greek Reds...
During the U.S. evacuation of the Hungnam beachhead last year, a key outer defense point was a ridge on the 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...
...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...