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Correspondent Mecklin began covering the world's wars in 1942. He made five convoy crossings of the Atlantic, reported the Sicily landings and the St.-Lò breakout from Normandy. Mecklin was captured by the Germans in September of 1944, when he was racing through France with Patton's Army. He was released after three days, spent a week with the French underground before rejoining the U.S. forces. Among his prized souvenirs is a butter knife with the initials A.H. on the handle, taken from the ruins of Hitler's Berlin bunker...
These U.S. marines, who were due to help convoy the Chinese P.W.s safely to Formosa, were perhaps the last of some 7,000 U.N. soldiers who died for the P.W.s' freedom. Of some 30,000 U.N. soldiers killed in Korea, these 7,000 were killed after the U.N. decided to hold out, as an essential condition for peace, for the right of the P.W.s not to go back to Communism. At week's end U.N. Commanding General John Hull gave this sacrifice due measure. The newly liberated P.W.s, said Hull, are "living symbols" that man everywhere can escape...
...joint sponsorship of the count-the Bourbon-Orléans pretender-and the retiring President of the Republic, Vincent Auriol. Among the 60 neatly drawn and pleasantly colored watercolors of military life in the U.S. were Fording the River at Bull Run, a sylvan scene of a Union convoy along a quiet road, and an exciting pictorial account, called Pickets Surprised at Peck's House, of a pistol-range fight between Union cavalry and a Confederate outpost in Virginia during the winter...
...soldier-reporter for Yank Magazine in the Far East. He was the Army weekly's first cor respondent in the Pacific, covered the New Guinea campaign, walked an esti mated 600 miles in forays behind enemy lines in Burma with Merrill's Marauders, rode the first convoy over the Ledo-Burma Road from India to China, dropped into Japanese-held Rangoon with Gurkha paratroops, and was awarded the Legion of Merit by General Douglas MacArthur...
Respect & Death. Even by Middle East standards, the campaign was rough. In the capital city of Beirut, ten people were wounded by a bomb. In Akkar, Mohammed's convoy was ambushed, and two men were shot. In alarm, President Camille Chamoun summoned the north Lebanon candidates to his mansion, to warn them that such violence must not take place on election...