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...task force followed a narrow Viet Minh track where the jungle crowds in from all sides. The men crossed numberless ravines on thin bamboo strands. On a better road a mile to the south, a column with mules transporting French 755 provided artillery support, while the French light cruiser Duguay-Tronin also zeroed in on Viet Minh positions. On the second day, Viet Minh opened machine-gun fire, but when Moroccan troops began closing in, they fled leaving behind no dead, no wounded...
...ditch the plane about a mile offshore in the sea. He remembers scrambling into the life raft and watching the plane sink slowly. "I gave it sort of a half salute." His main worry was what his plane captain would think when Ensign Tatum was reported missing. A British cruiser picked...
...photograph . . . made during rescue operations by the light cruiser U.S.S. Santa Fe, was taken by Ship's Photographer William B. Bates Ph.M. 1/c. I hope that Captain Edward Steichen will be able to locate him, in order to present him with a well-deserved citation...
...were driven to the south of the Taedong River, but bounced back across it and seized 3,000-ft. Wolbong Mountain, commanding several miles of lateral road along the front. On the east coast the Reds were stopped with the help of Allied airplanes and naval gunfire, from the cruiser Rochester and a destroyer. This week the South Koreans were again rapidly pushing toward the Red-held port of Chongjin. They also shoved a force inland to threaten the flank of the enemy units facing the U.S. 7th Division...
...photograph was made, I cannot say from personal knowledge that Captain Steichen did not make that photograph. I do remember that in talking with survivors of the Franklin photo lab ... they told me that the pictures from which this is a selection were made by enlisted photographers aboard the cruiser which came alongside...