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...combat casualty lay. The wounded man's helmet had fallen over his face; blood oozed from a jagged hole in his breast. Irwin concentrated on all the things he had been taught to do. "Take it easy, Mac," said Corpsman Rietz as he ripped open the blood-soaked flak jacket and pressed dressings on the wound. "You're going to be all right...
...preached for five packed services in the Presbyterian church, then went up to the front just before Christmas to see the troops. The day before Christmas, in a tour of the central front, 5,000 men turned out to see him. Christmas afternoon he put aside his helmet and flak vest, flew back to Tokyo. Both Evangelist Graham and Cardinal Spellman left a great many calmer, happier Christians behind them in Korea. Graham also left a dog-tired Korean interpreter, the Rev. Han Kyung Chik, a Seoul pastor. Said Presbyterian Han, after two weeks of high-pressure translating for Billy...
...from the Boxer, the guide plane and its robot (or "drone") reached Korea's east coast. The target was a rail-and-road bridge on the Reds' main line from Vladivostok to Wonsan. When the attacking party reached the target area, the AD hung back out of flak range, sent the robot on in. The Hellcat's camera and the AD's TV screen picked up the bridge. The control man in the AD put the robot into a screaming dive, kept his aiming crosshairs on the bridge as he watched it grow bigger & bigger...
...were being turned out every day at a Communist small-arms plant at Nakwon, just south of the Yalu in northwestern Korea. Early last week U.S. planes dropped leaflets warning the people of Nakwon that an air raid was coming. Next day 14 B-29s lumbered over, through heavy flak and passes by enemy interceptors, and blasted the grenade factory to bits...
Night brought no respite to the enemy capital. Fifty-four 6-29 bombers from Japan and Okinawa went over and took care of targets specially reserved for them in the city's northwest corner-more repair shops, a troop center, a headquarters for several Communist armies. Flak was feeble; all the big bombers returned safely...