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Major General Hobart R. Gay, commanding general of the U.S. ist Cavalry Division, sat on a pile of rocks in a little village about 1,000 yards from a Communist roadblock that had cut off two of his battalions...
Inside Taegu, Major General Hobart Gay, commander of the ist Cavalry Division, had set up his headquarters, in a horse barn at the city's race track. A calm, kindly, humble soldier who was chief of staff to Tanker Patton in World War II, Gay paced up & down in shabby coveralls, looking less like a general than like a Kansas farmer worrying about crops. Pointing to his situation map with a slim, sheathed French bayonet disguised as a riding crop, General, Gay said: "I hope the enemy is as confused about the situation...
...week's end the Reds were still trying. Their estimated casualties in this action alone: 2,400 dead and wounded. Major General Hobart R. Gay, the 1st Cavalry's commander, reported that the Communists were using hordes of civilians, armed only with sharpened sticks, to shield the advance of their regular troops...
...center of the curving front, Yongdong was a mass of rubble, leveled by artillery from both armies. From Hwanggan to Yongdok on the east coast, MacArthur's headquarters estimated that 90,000 North Koreans had been poured in against the Americans and South Koreans. Major General Hobart R. Gay, dashing commander of the ist Cavalry, paraphrased World War I's Marshal Ferdinand Foch. Said Gay: "Foch said that there comes a time in every battie when both commanders think they are losing. Then the one who attacks, wins. I shall attack."* General Gay did attack. An artillery barrage...
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...