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...raked by machine-gun fire from a ridge on the north. We left the vehicles and deployed to the south, but there was no more fire. Next morning we sent patrols down the road and they didn't find much, so we proceeded. I was in the fourth jeep from the front and Colonel Kim, the R.O.K. commander, was just ahead. As we rounded a curve the whole side of the mountain ahead of us opened up with fire. Colonel Kim's driver was mortally wounded by the first volley. My jeep was hit all over...
...enough to merit another MacArthur visit to the front. On a bitterly cold but sunny morning, three hours after his divisions jumped off, MacArthur's Constellation, the SCAP, landed on Sinanju's bumpy airfield. Welcomed by a cluster of his top brass, the general climbed into a jeep and pulled the hood of his pile-lined parka over his head. In the back seat rode the Eighth Army's Lieut. General Walton Walker...
...walk-on. In the film's climax, the rumble of distant naval guns disperses a Japanese patrol that is closing in on the guerrillas. "MacArthur?" asks Micheline. "He said he'd return," replies Tyrone. Moments later, led by G.I. columns stepping briskly to a Sousa march, the jeep-borne general himself (played by Robert Barrat) rolls into sight to accept their cheers...
...away just as the sky begins to buzz with hundreds and hundreds of American planes and it looks like MacArthur was right when he said "I shall return" and sure enough he does return or anyhow somebody wearing stars and dark glasses rides through town on a jeep waving and everybody is yelling and waving American flags and so are Tyrone and Micheline...
...fast as possible. From the mobile units and other field hospitals, within a week after the war's outbreak, helicopters and grasshopper planes flew the most seriously wounded back to evacuation hospitals. Many a man whose life would have been bounced out of him in a long jeep ride over goat trails through the Korean mountains got to an evacuation port in good shape. Just how good was shown by the astonishing record of the evacuation hospital at Pusan: of 18,000 admitted in the first three months of war, only 40 died...