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...special anniversary hand, Muggsy and his new Dixieland band were celebrating the best way they knew how: rocking off chorus after chorus of High Society and Jazz Me Blues, right from the heart. Like many another veteran of the Chicago Dixieland era of jazz, Muggsy was riding the crest of a new wave of the old jazz...
Hazards. Technically, at least, the landing would be the toughest MacArthur had ever attempted. Inchon's tide, said Admiral Doyle, is one of the world's greatest. The highwater mark comes only three days each month, and the Inchon basin can be worked only at the crest of the tide. This would give the landing force but four to eight hours out of 24 for movements of men and supplies...
...more than an hour the assault force stumbled and struggled forward against a solid wall of fire. A Red mortar was knocked out by artillery, but the machine guns and automatic weapons continued without letup. As the marines neared the crest, their line ripped apart; the North Koreans rose from their positions and came forward throwing grenades. The Reds were cut down but not before their grenades had done terrible work among the marines...
...marine line wavered and paused; it withdrew a bit and waited. Then with a final thrust, some ten marines reached the northern crest. They never came back...
...morning before dawn, under a quarter moon, Captain Frederick T. Griffiths of Cleveland shouted these brave words to his combat-green company. The Communist enemy was swarming down on them from the crest of a ridge. After the astonished Reds had been chased off the hill, down the far slope and off another hill, Captain Griffiths exulted...