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...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...
...week's end the ist Cavalry Division, which had landed earlier at Pohang (see below), arrived to give the 24th the relief it so sorely needed and deserved. The new arrivals were fresh and eager. Their commander, Major General Hobart Gay, promised a bottle of champagne to any man who got a Communist tank. As Gay's men moved up to the front, they met the gaunt, bone-tired G.I.s of the 24th Division, some barefooted, some almost naked, all staggering from exhaustion...
Columnist Drew Pearson had an inside tip on U.S. unpreparedness for readers of his "Washington Merry-Go-Round." Wrote he: although the ist Cavalry Division was "supposed to be one of the crack combat outfits of the Regular Army," its commander, Major General Hobart Gay, had suffered a heart attack and could not pass a physical examination. Because...