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...month (May 1951), more than $1,200 was raised in the ist Cavalry Division for "Operation Mascot," a project for the placement in Korean orphanages of Korean children who had served as mascots for the division...
...read with interest and pride your March 23 article on the British ist Commonwealth Division. There should be more said about this tough division made up of volunteers from all over the British Commonwealth. The fact that they are volunteers sets them aside from many units in Korea, and they take a fierce pride in this fact...
...soldiers he talked to. (Last year he sent letters to the relatives of 6,000 after he returned to the U.S.) On Christmas Eve, he said midnight Mass at I Corps chapel, the next day flew up to the front, where he spoke to 2,500 marines in the ist Division's amphitheater, his stole, cassock and surplice fitting snugly over...
...weeks ago, although well-dug-in Chinese Reds sat on top of Big Nori, South Koreans of the ist R.O.K. Division moved up to occupy Little Nori. For five weeks-up to last week-the two hostile forces lived in what passes for peace on the front lines, occasionally taking a potshot or lobbing over a mortar shell and getting a round or two in return. Both the Reds and the ROKs spent much time and energy improving their caves, tunnels, trenches, bunkers...
Ankle-deep in the heather of a north German moor, the green-clad hunter carefully quartered the area until he found a rabbit hole. Noting fresh tracks, he solemnly commented: "Das ist gut." From a leather pouch on his hip he brought out a sleek, sausage-shaped ferret named Mookie. The three tiny bells on his neck tinkling, Mookie was launched down the rabbit hole. The Jagermeister (hunt master) watched intently as Mookie's master raised his gauntleted left arm and spoke soothingly to the malevolent-looking hawk tethered to his wrist. "Steady, Diana. Steady, pretty girl," whispered...