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...Thanksgiving? The U.S. now had five divisions (or parts of divisions) in Korea-the and, 24th and 25th Infantry, the ist Cavalry, the 1st Marine-plus the 5th RCT (regimental combat team) from Hawaii, plus unidentified reinforcements which went into the line last week. The South Koreans had five divisions more on the line. Admiral Forrest Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations, revealed that thousands of marines were en route from the U.S. The first ground troops from other United Nations were also en route...
...skirling of the pipers has led Scotsmen into many a battle in many a faraway land. Last week kilted pipers led Scotsmen and Englishmen toward a new battlefield. From Hong Kong 1,500 men of the ist Battalion of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders and the ist Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment boarded a British carrier for Korea in answer to General MacArthur's request for immediate ground reinforcements for his forces in Korea (TIME...
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...
...Despite saturation bombing of the area by B-29s (see The Air War), the enemy divisions mounted a massive (30,000 men) and skillful attack from a jump-off point northeast of the target area and smashed due south, capturing Kunwi and Kumhwa, and pushing back the South Korean ist and 6th Divisions. But the courageous South Koreans managed to regroup. They were reinforced by the 27th ("Wolfhound") Regiment of the U.S. 25th Division, which was hurried to the scene all the way from the south coast. The 27th is commanded by 38-year-old Colonel John ("Mike") Michaelis...
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...