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Things had been more or less quiet in Korea's prison camps ever since Brigadier General Haydon L. Boatner subdued the Communist rioters on infamous Koje Island last spring (TIME, May 26 et seq.). Then came the big dispersal. Off to the mainland went 48,000 anti-Communist Koreans, to be detained in six camps there. The Communist North Koreans were left on Koje and two neighboring islands. All 20,000 Chinese prisoners were shipped to the mountainous island of Cheju. There last week, trouble flared...
Fifteen minutes after the battle started, it was over. Fifty-six Chinese were dead or dying, 100 others wounded. Two Americans were wounded. Already, Haydon L. Boatner was being sadly missed in Korea...
...took over as commander of the 23rd Regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division. In Korea, Captain Clifford D. Jolley, 31, of Salt Lake City, shot down his fifth enemy plane to become America's 18th jet ace of the war. In Tokyo, the Army announced that Brigadier General Haydon L. Boatner, who restored order to the rebellious prisoner-of-war camp on Koje Islands, had been promoted to the rank of major general. In Washington, the Marine Corps announced that Colonel Katherine A. Towle, 54, director of Women Marines, would retire next May to take over...
Koje Island's new prison commandant, a first-class combat man, emerged last week as a soldier who could also use his wits in the most disagreeable of rear-area jobs. Boldly and shrewdly, Brigadier General Haydon L. Boatner had chosen Compound 76, scene of the Dodd-Colson coup, as the first to be tackled in bringing order to the prison. After the bloody battle in which Compound 76's 6,000 hard-core Communists were subdued (TIME, June 16), the other tough enclosures on Koje toppled like ninepins, with no further fighting between guards and prisoners...
Brigadier General Haydon Lemaire ("Bull") Boatner was ready for his big test on Koje Island. He intended to break up the big compounds, and he decided to start with the 6,000 hard-core North Koreans in Compound 76-the gang that engineered the abduction of Brigadier General (now Colonel) Francis T. Dodd. To impress 76's inmates, he staged a rehearsal with tanks and flamethrowers in an empty compound next to theirs. The prisoners answered by digging chest-deep trenches and continuing to turn out steel-tipped spears and other crude weapons on their hidden forge...