Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ashore, the G.I.s snapped to their task, moved out through Pohang to the front. "Our job," said General Gay crisply, "is to kill North Korean troops until the United Nations has won a victory in Korea." The U.S. buildup was on in earnest...
...Taejon and (more importantly) to anchor the right flank of the U.S.-South Korean line. The men who landed at Pohang were members of the famed 1st Cavalry Division, the third U.S. division to be sent into battle in Korea. They were commanded by Major General Hobart R. Gay, a veteran armored force officer who served as chief of staff to General George S. Pattern's Third Army in World War II. At the front, Gay carried a military swagger stick given him by Patton. Earlier, the U.S. 25th Division, commanded by Major General William B. Kean, had landed...
...General Gay's cavalrymen smoked and gossiped in the steamy heat...
Columnist Drew Pearson had an inside tip on U.S. unpreparedness for readers of his "Washington Merry-Go-Round." Wrote he: although the ist Cavalry Division was "supposed to be one of the crack combat outfits of the Regular Army," its commander, Major General Hobart Gay, had suffered a heart attack and could not pass a physical examination. Because...
...Gay's condition, wrote Pearson, "Japan was picked for him as a soft berth." The facts: after a thorough physical examination at Walter Reed General Hospital, General Gay had been certified fit for full duty. On the same day that Pearson's column appeared, the newspapers blared across their front pages the news that Gay had led his division in an amphibious landing at Pohang, Korea (see WAR IN ASIA...