Word: craig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Noble and Greenough: l.e., Mullin; l.t., Catlin; l.g., Dillon; c., Craig; r.g., Elder; r.t., Stout; r.e., Cummings; q.b., Tolan; l.h., Allen; r.h., Kenney; f.b., Nichols...
Last Gasp. In the south, Walker on Aug. 7 mounted the first sustained U.S. counterattack of the war, to drive the enemy back from his disquieting proximity to Pusan. General Craig's marines joined this "spoiling attack," but Walker pulled them out after they had helped to upset the enemy. He had to make shift with what troops were already at hand, shuttling them from one crisis to another. The next reserves due to arrive-the bulk of the 1st Marine Division from the U.S. and the 7th Infantry from Japan-were earmarked for Operation Chromite, the invasion...
...thing for Smith to be late getting into the war, or not to get into it at all. He had to wait in California while his assistant division commander, Brigadier General Edward Craig (TIME, Aug. 14), took advance elements of the ist to Korea for the first Marine battles there. In World War I, Smith, as a fledgling Marine officer, had been sent to Guam-of all places-where the only German he might have sighted (he did not) would have been Count Luckner, the Kaiser's famed sea raider. Pearl Harbor found Smith in-of all places-Iceland...
Back of His Hand. When the Communists invaded South Korea, Smith was in Washington as Clifton Cates's assistant commandant. In July Smith was sent to California, as a two-star general, to command the 1st Division. While Eddie Craig with his advance combat team kicked off the Marine fighting in Korea, Smith fleshed out the depleted division with reserves and regulars summoned from all over the country. Last week, in the kind of ship-to-shore assault he knows like the back of his hand, Oliver Prince Smith was in the Korean war at last...
...pull the 24th Division (first U.S. division committed in Korea) from a rest area and send it back to battle in the northeast. The 24th's commander, Major General John Church, looked very sick of the war when he conferred with the Marines' Brigadier General Edward Craig, who did not look very pleased himself...