Word: ist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doffing their parkas in the warm midday sun, marines moved carefully toward the town. On the west, the tanks of the ist Cavalry Division kept pace with and sometimes outsped the leathernecks. The cavalrymen flanked Hongchon on the west, and the marines hauled up for the night a short distance south. The town was quiet...
Twenty to 30 rounds of high-velocity shells whistled over the ford, toward the marines advancing from the south and the ist Cavalry's tankers. A chow line around the ist Cavalry armor abruptly disappeared as the men climbed in and buttoned up. In the marine area the cry for a medical corpsman was heard, and dirt began to fly from entrenching tools...
During the U.S. evacuation of the Hungnam beachhead last year, a key outer defense point was a ridge on the exposed eastern flank. For 30 hours an infantry platoon of the 3rd Division, commanded by ist Lieut. Harry E. Sutton, 30, of The Bronx, beat off enemy attacks, refused to retreat even when part of the U.S. line was overrun. Lieutenant Sutton won the Silver Star for leading a bayonet charge which dug out the enemy and restored the position. Greater honor, perhaps, than the Silver Star was the fact that his fellow soldiers and superior officers referred...
Major General Charles D. Palmer, 49, commander of ist Cavalry Division: West Point, 1924; chief of staff, 2nd Armored Division and VI Corps in Europe, World War II; division artillery officer, 1st Cavalry Division in Japan and Korea...
Nearly all of the old command teams are back in the U.S. for jobs of first importance: applying battle experience gained in Korea to the training of the expanding Army at home. Major General Hobart Gay, onetime commander of the ist Cavalry Division, is deputy commander of the Fourth Army at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Major General John Church, ex-commander of the 24th Division, is the new boss of the Army's famed Infantry School at Fort Benning. Major General David Barr, former commander of the 7th Division, is now commander of the Armored School at Fort Knox...