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Twelve lettermen are represented in this group, three of whom--left end Dike Hyde, center Paul O'Brien, and fullback Johnny West--started last year's Yale game, and a fourth--Captain Phil Isenberg--who was considered a first string player even though he started on defense only...
...fury -and apparently, with ample reserves-to destroy the U.S. beachhead. They had assembled massive forces aimed at Taegu (see map). Tough, ubiquitous General Walton Walker was still forced to shuttle his units from one crisis to another, like a Dutch boy trying to plug four holes in the dike with two thumbs...
Ordeal by Fire. In 1936, when the swollen Yangtze threatened to flood Hankow, Mayor Wu conscripted 30,000 coolies to repair a broken dike, trained machine guns on them to keep them from quitting; for 13 days & nights he stayed atop the dike directing their work. Floods more terrible than the Yangtze were threatening China. The Japanese conquest forced Chiang's armies back into the interior. On the morning of Mayor Wu's 35th birthday, Oct. 25, 1938, Hankow, then Chiang's center of resistance, fell to the Japanese...
There was some justification for such reasoning. Suppose the Red-led troops of Communist China were determinedly and ceaselessly thrown into Korea against U.S. forces never able to do better than just hold the dike. Suppose such pressure was exerted against Indo-China and Formosa to the point of ultimate U.S. exhaustion. U.S. military strength, worn down by attrition faster than it could be built up, would scarcely have the reserve strength left to oppose 175 Russian divisions in Europe...
...situation like that one. We were ordered to hold at all cost. We did, but the cost was awful . . ." The Americans were driven back to the Kum River above Taejon. Most of them dug in south of the river, where they had the advantage of a flood-control dike 20 to 30 feet high...