Word: boatner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Koje's new boss, Brigadier General Haydon ("The Bull") Boatner, got orders to "obtain uncontested control" of the Red-controlled stockades. He ringed the compounds with tanks, machine guns and infantry, began building smaller, more manageable stockades (500 men to each), into which the prisoners will be dispersed. Two rifle companies of British Commonwealth troops were shipped to Koje, to spread the onus of disciplining the prisoners among as many nations as possible. Koje's 80,000 P.W.s were pinning down a six-nation tank and infantry force almost a division strong...
...Bull. After a three-hour telecon talk with the Pentagon, Clark moved to set things to rights. He had already fired Colson as commandant; he now repudiated Colson's concessions as having "no validity whatsoever." Clark sent a tough, Chinese-speaking combat commander, Brigadier General Haydon Lemaire Boatner, to take over on Koje, followed by the battle-seasoned 187th Airborne Regiment, 3,000 men strong...
...General Boatner has two nicknames: "Buster" and "the Bull." At 18 he was a Marine Corps private. After World War I, he went to West Point, saw long service in China, and in World War II was chief of staff to General Joseph Stilwell. In the CBI theater he was known as a hard-driving character who spoke his mind. In Korea, as assistant commander of the 2nd Infantry Division, he fought at Heartbreak Ridge. He became Koje's 14th commander in 16 months...
This week U.S. guards were still staying out of the Communist stockades. The prisoners were still displaying flags and signs. The ringleaders from other compounds who had been admitted to compound 76 (where the Dodd abduction occurred) were still there, and refused to leave. If Bull Boatner could rectify those matters without further violence, he would be a very exceptional general indeed...