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...event of bad weather, these officers will proceed in a convoy of three unarmed quarter ton trucks. The trucks, commonly known as jeeps, will proceed along the main road from Seoul to Kaesong...
...Berlin crisis lasted almost 15 months and was a very daring undertaking . . . There were times when [it] also looked like a stalemate, but we ... won a notable victory . . . There were many that advocated that we breach the Russian setup, and go through their territory with an armed convoy. We didn't do that . . . Undoubtedly [that] would have promoted a general conflict . . . The effort to free
Gradually, as Communist propaganda attacked the U.S., and him personally, and after Communists shot two U.S. marines in a convoy to Tientsin, Marshall concluded that there was no possibility of further mediation...
...Chinks hit us about 2 a.m.," the corporal said. "There was shooting all over the place. They sent me and 14 other riflemen out to secure the guns. We helped get them in convoy, but only three of us came back...
Next day the convoy crawled southward, the infantry fighting off the Communists from the rear. That night, the guns fired in a circle. The infantry tried to take a hill to clear a path southward, but the Reds drove them back...