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...rescuing the wounded from isolated spots that could not have been reached any other way. One of the men flying the 'copters is Lieut, (j.g.) Charles Jones, a 28-year-old Kansan. Not long ago Lieut. Jones took off from the cruiser Rochester to find and rescue a Corsair fighter pilot who had been shot down over North Korea. The Navy does not consider it safe to use helicopters for night flying and Jones knew it would be dark before he could get back, but he volunteered to go on the mission anyway...
...line, as he had been in the small hours of June 25, was fast-moving Ernest A. Gross, deputy U.S. representative on the Security Council. This time Ernie Gross had no invasion to report, but his news was potentially as serious. A Russian plane had attacked a Corsair fighter of a U.N. naval force in the Yellow Sea, off Korea's west coast. The plane had been shot down, and the body of a Russian aviator recovered...
Early one morning last week, a U.S. Marine assault force prepared to storm No Name Ridge. For 5 minutes, the height was pounded by U.S. artillery. Then for a quarter of an hour Marine Corsair fighter planes raked it with bombs, rockets and machine guns. After this there was another 10-minute artillery barrage; then the Corsairs came back over for final strafing runs...
Airborne leathernecks of the Marine Corps' First Air Wing made a dashing debut in Korea last week. Taking off from a Navy carrier, gull-winged Corsair fighter-bombers attacked antiaircraft emplacements, troop concentrations, bridges and transports in the vital Chinju area. In low, ground-hugging runs, the Corsairs flushed Red soldiers out of haystacks and woods...
...Elements (about 6,000 men) of the 1st Marine Division were preparing to board transports at San Diego. Waiting there for shipping was the 1st Marine Air Wing equipped with AD Douglas attack planes and F4U Corsair fighters...