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Early one February morning in 1943, the U.S. troop transport Dorchester was wallowing through icy seas off Greenland. Most of the 900 troops on board were asleep in their bunks. Suddenly a torpedo smashed into the Dorchester's thin flank. Frantically pounding up the ladders, the troops milled in confusion on the unfamiliar decks...
Captain Cliff Harrison, first line center and team-leading scorer, draws special praise from Jeremiah: "a superb stickhandler and passer; skates like a human dynamo." Bill Dow and junior George Scully flank Harrison. The probable lineup: HARVARD DARTMOUTH Richardson or Corning g McMahon Wykoff ld Brower Bliss rd Grocutt Preston (C) lw Dow Kittredge c Harrison (C) Marshall rw Scully
...pounded on last week, De Lattre flew into the French outpost of Vinhyen (see map) after it was cut off from Hanoi by the Communists. He wanted to see the battle for Hill 101 himself. He watched two French columns go into a counterattack. Fighting for him, on one flank, there was a detachment of Muongs, hill people from the "Country of the Killing Water," where they hunt pigs with bows & arrows. Now, armed with rifles, they were stalking a Red column. As they edged forward under Communist machine-gun fire, clouds of smoke and dust rose ahead of them...
Trappers Trapped. Three North Korean divisions - the 2nd, 9th and 31st -had moved around the right flank of the Wonju salient and were trying desperately last week to encircle the 2nd Division. Yongwol, a tungsten-mining town on the headwaters of the Han, changed hands even oftener than Wonju, and was razed by allied planes dropping napalm. R.O.K. units reported themselves "locked in combat" with the North Koreans, and 10,000 U.S. troops rushed to the scene. Finally, instead of trapping the Americans, the North Koreans were trapped themselves. Allied infantry, tanks, artillery and planes began chopping them down...
...week's end, some 30,000 Reds had poured around the right flank of the 2nd Division's horseshoe position, and were setting up roadblocks several miles to the south. The 2nd Division fought back, showing no fear of entrapment...