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Doffing their parkas in the warm midday sun, marines moved carefully toward the town. On the west, the tanks of the ist Cavalry Division kept pace with and sometimes outsped the leathernecks. The cavalrymen flanked Hongchon on the west, and the marines hauled up for the night a short distance south. The town was quiet...
...enemy breakthrough could be prevented. The ist Cavalry Division, aided by British and Turks, was rushed to plug the enormous gap in the Tokchon sector where the R.O.K. II Corps had been shattered. It was like trying to plug a fire hose with a wad of chewing gum. The cavalrymen were beaten back 30 miles to Sinchang, then lost the town and fell back still farther...
...forward post we found nine /bearded cavalrymen. They had just finished chow and were looking longingly at the fresh apple pie which a medical officer had forbidden them to eat because it was too heavy for half-starved men. "All Quiet." Corporal Edwin L. Piper of Company G, 2nd Battalion, who had kept snatches of a diary, told us the story of his week. Hard hit in the first enemy thrust, the remnants of his company had made two withdrawals, finally joined K Company of the 3rd Battalion on a hill where it had been trapped. Said Piper: "Company...
...fighting pose of the courbette. Without apparent urging from its rider, the performing Lipizzan reared high on its hind legs, executed a series of forward jumps while pawing furiously, almost like a boxer, with its forelegs. Such a maneuver, Colonel Podhajsky explains, was naturally in high favor among medieval cavalrymen when ever they found themselves hemmed in by foot soldiers...
...riders watched cavalry teams from Mexico, Britain, France, Ireland, Chile and Canada jump off with all the prizes at the U.S.'s own National Horse Show. This year the International Equestrian Federation came to the rescue by ruling that civilians are just as eligible for international competitions as cavalrymen. Accordingly, as the 1950 horse show opened in Madison Square Garden last week, the U.S. was back in the saddle again...