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...reached the barracks that Russian tanks were coming, the colonel ordered complete quiet. The tanks came close to the barracks wall, but no one stirred. Some infantry appeared and shot up the building, but the Freedom Fighters did not return the fire. Finally there were 20 tanks, some 75 infantrymen, a truck, and an armored car outside the barracks. "Colonel Maleter came and looked down," recalls Peter Szanto. "He picked up a small nitroglycerin bottle and threw it at the truck. The truck disappeared in one big roar. Then we all threw nitroglycerin bottles and benzine flashes and used machine...
...hills of southern Illinois; Wilson's live in a rickety three-room house in a company-owned lumber town in north-central Louisiana. Both youths quit school early-Pate in the ninth grade, Wilson in the eighth. They were in the Army at 17, fighting in Korea as infantrymen in the U.S. 7th Division the following year. Both were captured near Chosin Reservoir in December 1950. After that came prison camp, Panmunjom and life under Communism...
...were fired for every enemy soldier wounded. 3) some 50,000 rounds were fired for every enemy killed. The burden of infantry fighting therefore fell upon the skilled, tough soldiers who operated such deadly weapons as automatic rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and mortars. Obviously needed: fewer but better infantrymen equipped with weapons of maximum firepower...
...checked the enemy. t| On Dale outpost, a badly wounded lieutenant led an uphill counterattack and nightlong defense, next morning could still jolly his men with a grin and a quip: "I already have one Purple Heart. Now they'll have to give me a dozen." t| Two infantrymen, both named Smith, were cut off from their outfit, spent the night with a wounded comrade playing possum on a shell-swept hillside while Chinese attackers swarmed over and past them. When dawn came, the two Smiths calmly brought in the wounded man, went back to the fight...
...hills around Budapest, heavy Soviet guns ranged in on the city's old Parliament House. Through the already battered streets thundered big new tanks, this time protected by trotting groups of dark-visaged Asian-Russian infantrymen. Weary but infinitely brave Freedom Fighters were mercilessly cut down. Traitors who had concealed themselves, or their intentions, during Hungary's miraculous five days of freedom (see Hungary) were welcomed. In a matter of hours Moscow was able to report that Communist Premier Imre Nagy, who had defied the Kremlin, was in jail, and a new Communist government installed under Party Secretary...