Word: bunker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting in Verden, Germany, addressed by ex-Paratrooper General "Papa" Ramcke, reminded me of the circumstances of his capture by our 13th Regiment of the 8th Division . . . on Sept. 19, 1944. Word was received that General Ramcke desired to surrender. He and his staff were in a bunker 75 feet underground, on the Crozon Peninsula outside Brest . . . At 1830 hours, Brigadier General Charles D. W. Canham . . . appeared to accept surrender. Very haughtily, Ramcke demanded of Canham his credentials. Canham pointed to the accompanying Tommy-gun and BAR men and replied: "These are my credentials...
Fighting flared up last week at other points along the central and western fronts-at Bunker Hill, of bloody memory (TIME, Aug. 25), at places called Finger Ridge and Iron Horse. Correspondents who saw last week's battles reported severe U.N. casualties-especially in U.S. dead and wounded on Triangle Hill...
...happy fugitive from his Washington routine of paperwork, conferences and command decisions, General "Lem" Shepherd, boss of the Marine Corps, flew off to Korea, went forthwith to a bunker on the firing line and watched his leathernecks in action in a sharp firefight...
...observers, the South Koreans seemed in much better shape than they had ever been in before, but they were still inexperienced in modern tactics and baffled by U.S. ideas of staff work. Said General Van Fleet: "They will need our help for a long, long time." Meanwhile on "Bunker" Hill, to the west, Marines fought off repeated night attacks...
...That Rascal." A little after midnight, 400 Chinese attacked in a businesslike skirmish line. It was the first wave of a sustained, methodical assault by more than 1,000 Chinese whose commander wanted Bunker Hill. The enemy infantry charged up the open ground, ducking behind rocks and bushes. They ran single file up a six-foot trench that debouched in front of a row of Marine foxholes. They ran through a screen-of flying earth and metal thrown up by all the U.N. guns within range of the hill...