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Killed in Action. Lieut, (j.g.) David Tatum, 24, U.S. Navy jet-fighter pilot and the courageous conscience of TIME'S com posite 1950 Fighting Man of the Year (TIME, Jan. 1, 1951); while on a routine heckling mission during which his Panther jet fighter, based on the carrier Valley Forge, was hit by flak, crashed and exploded on a mountain ten miles west of Wonsan, North Korea...
...Hamhung with a duffel bag full of instruments. He elbowed some space in a field hospital, persuaded a peacetime obstetrician to team up with him, and got to work. By the time the evacuation was over, he had proved his point that brain operations could be performed under com bat conditions...
...critics who accused him of ignoring Europe, or of wanting to reimpose a discredited past upon Asia. "The issues are global," he said, "and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector oblivious to those of another is to court disaster for the whole. While Asia is com- monly referred to as the gateway to Eu rope, it is no less true that Europe is the gateway to Asia . . . There are those who claim our strength is inadequate to protect on both fronts ... I can think of no greater expression of defeatism...
When he is not on the road (last month he spent 13 nights in sleeping cars on a tour of National Council centers), he com mutes each morning from Seabury House - a Greenwich, Conn, estate which he persuaded the Episcopal Church to buy and turn into an informal country headquarters for conferences...
America's No. i battle right now is to turn back the tide of Soyiet Com munism. But the fight to keep the flag of freedom flying is a bigger fight even than putting the quietus on the Kremlin...