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...claimed they were "messengers" but had no messages; South Korean officers who could not find their division commander; and, finally, the division commander, who was on a hilltop watching Allied airplanes strafe the enemy, instead of trying to regroup his men. The South Korean driver of a regimental radio jeep had his set tuned to a recording of Crooner Frank Sinatra (broadcast by the U.S. armed forces network) because, he explained, there could be no messages, because his regiment had disappeared...
Scribner waited until his South Korean litter bearers had loaded the man they had just brought up onto a jeep. He shook himself, said, "Come on, characters," and started down into the valley and up the bloody ridge again...
Last Out of the Valley. Finally, at Craig's command, the second wave of the Marine assault force moved up the road toward the jump-off point. They moved in single file, on both sides of the road, for down the center came more wounded. They came in jeeps, four to a jeep, at 3 m.p.h. Medics riding with them did the best they could to make their wounds less painful. One downy-faced corpsman stroked an old, hard-faced sergeant's head above his ripped face and kept saying, "You'll be fine, Sarge...
Rifles held in readiness, the anti-Communist youth of Bai Trang stood with their backs to the village, scanning the fields for marauders. The black-gowned notables clasped hands between their knees and bowed from the hips. As my jeep rattled off, Nguyen Van Tin shouted...
Last week, on the front near Waegwan, the U.N. commission suffered its first casualty. Its alternate member, Colonel Unni Nayar of India, and two British correspondents with him (see PRESS) were killed when the colonel's jeep ran over a land mine...