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Voice from Home. In the twilight, infantrymen moving forward on tanks, armored-personnel carriers and trucks, buttoned their field jackets against the chill and dug into canned rations. Some huddled close to their vehicle's radio, listening to reports of a California basketball game. Task Force Growdon rolled on toward Munsan...
When last week's U.N. attack began, Matt Ridgway, an austerely handsome man of 56, tramped alongside the lead tank of a column, critically watching the two lines of infantrymen shuffle up the road a few hundred yards ahead. Neatly hooked to the web harness he wore over his trench coat were a paratrooper's first-aid kit and the hand grenade that has become as famous a trademark as George Patton's pearl-handled pistols...
...82nd into one of the first two U.S. airborne divisions. To show his men what paratrooping might be like, Ridgway, who had no particular airborne qualifications, hied himself to Fort Benning to make a parachute jump. "It was the most glorious feeling in the world," he told the dubious infantrymen. "You feel like the lord of creation floating way up above the earth...
...howitzers are still the standard weapons of U.S. division artillery. The high-velocity 90-mm. tank gun is tops at lashing shells point-blank into enemy-held caves or tunnels. Some infantrymen swear by the twin 40-mm. antiaircraft gun, mounted on a halftrack. Said one colonel: "They're just ideal for those Korean hills-they go over them like a vacuum cleaner...
Doughfeet Right Behind. In early Korea actions, infantrymen were slow in following up artillery concentrations on enemy positions. Since artillery fire often does little more than stun a well-dug-in enemy, this delay lost them the advantages of artillery preparation. Eighth Army veterans now close in confidently behind the last bursts, calmly watch their own "outgoing" stuff land 100 yards away from them...