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...office down the hall from MacArthur's own in Tokyo's Dai Ichi building, pince-nezed Frank Lowe squiggled the last line of another long, hand-written report to the White House, locked up a couple of presidential letters, and flew off to visit the ist Marine Division in southern Korea. Nobody questioned his comings & goings: the two-star general was armed with a presidential letter that authorized him to go where he chose, read what he wanted, and report what he pleased (although he had no command authority...
...Chinese were well into the northwestern sector of Seoul. Baker Company of Mike Michaelis' ist Battalion was having a hot fight. The last frantic surge of refugees spewed forth across the ice of the frozen...
...President Truman was to present the Medal of Honor to Travis Watkins' widow. On behalf of four other U.S. fighting men, killed or missing in action in Korea, relatives would accept the first five to be awarded in the Korean war.* The other fighting men so honored are ist Lieut. Frederick F. Henry, 33, of Clinton, Okla.; Private ist Class Melvin L. Brown, 20, of Mahaffey, Pa.; Sergeant ist Class Charles W. Turner, 29, of Boston; and Major General William F. Dean, 51, of Berkeley, Calif. Of Dean's now famed exploit in besieged, burning Taejon, when...
Said Major General O. P. Smith of the ist Marine Division, after the battle: "They knew all about us, all right, where we were and what we had. But I can't understand their tactics. Instead of hitting us with everything in one place, they kept on hitting us at different places . . . The only advantage they have on God's green earth is numbers...
...permitting fast change when the tactical situation required it-which was often. Last month, when the early winter caught many front-line troops without winter clothing, Combat Cargo offloaded other supplies and flew in tons of shoepacs, parkas, woolen underwear and ski socks. And within hours after the ist Cavalry Division had run into the Chinese counterattack of last Halloween, the airlift had switched from gas and C rations to ammunition and medical supplies. Sometimes, too, the situation called for a fast switch in reverse. Just before the last transport plane pulled out of Sinanju last week, one of Tunner...