Word: klein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the island's commander, Colonel Maurice J. Fitzgerald, ordered the combat-famed U.S. 27th (Wolfhound) Regiment, which now guards Koje, to screen Compound 62 and give the non-Communists a chance to get out. At 5:30 a.m., a battalion of Wolfhounds under Major John J. Klein of Houston, Texas, moved in hoping to catch the prisoners asleep. But prisoner sentinels gave the alarm...
...They came storming out of the buildings in groups of three with their arms locked," Major Klein reported later. "When they got outside they locked arms with other groups until they were a solid line. You pulled one and you pulled 5,000. They threw rocks and they shouted, 'Kill the Americans, they are your enemy...
...Wolfhounds at first replied with non-fragmenting grenades, but the explosions did not stop the prisoners. Said Major Klein, "Nothing else could stop them so we fired." The mob backed up. On the ground they left 75 dead or dying, another 139 wounded. One U.S. soldier was killed, 39 more wounded. The Battle of Compound 62 was as deadly as any fought on Korea's battlefront last week...
ADRIAN L. KLEIN...
Quick Diagnosis. In Manhattan, wounded by a holdup man, hospitalized Sam Klein took one shocked look at the new patient getting into the next bed, frantically cried: "That's the guy who shot...