Word: ist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Army Public Information officers, hot under the collar at Handleman's story, were given fresh cause to sweat only a day later. Spurred on by INS reports that some of the ist Marine Division had reached Korea, the Associated Press announced the arrival of the division nearly 24 hours before it actually happened. Army men were worried, too, by front-line stories detailing U.S. losses and plans-a practice for which the U.P.'s Robert Miller had been reprimanded early in July...
...Reds took Namwon, Kwangju and Mokpo-then, wheeling east, Posong, Sunchon, Yosu, Hadong, Ponggye. Elements of the Americans' tired and battered 24th Infantry Division, which needed a rest, and of the ist Cavalry Division, which could ill be spared from the central front, were wheeled 60 miles south to meet the threat. After the fall of Chinju, the next likely enemy objective was Masan-27 miles from Pusan...
...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 of white phosphorus shells caused...
...their National Guard units for annual maneuvers: ist Lieut. Harold Arthur, 46, governor of Vermont and onetime boy whistling prodigy; Curt Simmons, 21, ace southpaw hurler (won 14, lost 5) who has helped spark the Philadelphia Phillies to the top of the National League...