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...stopped to ponder ways & means of getting across the stream. But the U.S. column was armor-tipped, and the tanks apparently panicked two of the waiting North Koreans; they broke from their foxholes and ran. That gave the Red play away. The U.S. tanks splashed across the stream while doughfeet swarmed across the bridge's torn girders. The Reds who stayed in their holes were killed by grenades or crushed under tank treads; those who broke and ran were mowed down by rifle and BAR fire. When the firefight was over, some 130 enemy dead were counted...
...24th Infantry Division and the British brigade then launched a limited attack of their own, to deepen and widen their bridgehead over the Chong-chon. The charging doughfeet made gains up to four miles, and found 600 enemy dead, presumably killed by Allied artillery. East of the marines, the 7th Division's commander, Major General David Barr, said his reconnaissance indicated he could go forward 30 miles, but he was not going to do so until his flanks were secure. On the east coast, the R.O.K. Capitol Division, operating with horse cavalry, scored a long advance north of Kilchu...
...regimental commanders, giving weatherbeaten Colonel Lewis ("Chesty") Puller of the 1st Marine Regiment the place of honor. On the Inchon waterfront Almond saw tanks loaded aboard LSTs. He flew in a Piper Cub 200 miles south to inspect the 7th Infantry Division in another staging area; he watched the doughfeet, stripped to the waist in the warm South Korean sun, maneuver through combat exercises in paddy fields and up hillsides...
...expensive spoiling attack was needed to save Pusan. The 5th Regimental Combat Team and the 24th Regiment (the 25th Division's crack Negro outfit) struggled valiantly for upland vantage points called Battle Mountain and Sobuk Ridge. Half a dozen times the heights changed hands. At one stage the doughfeet were described as hanging on "by their toenails"-but they did hang...
Cannon for Doughfeet. Four of Pratt's eleven are Civil War generals, all of them Northern. The best of the studies in this group is that of George H. Thomas, "the old gray mare of the Union," a Virginia-born artilleryman who commanded infantry and was certain that the chief role of the big guns was to give the footsloggers a hand. Wearing his finest uniform, "all togged out like a Christmas tree," the famed Rock of Chickamauga "rode along the line, bellowing in a voice audible to every man within a hundred yards that help was coming...