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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vicarious, on-the-spot experience comes over the air from tape-recorded documentaries made under fire by combat correspondents of the U.S. armed forces. Most of them have been made by young (39) Lieut. Colonel Wes McPheron. With McPheron, armchair listeners have crouched in a forward observation post watching a tank-artillery duel and stood helpless in an aid station listening to the moans of a soldier crippled by a mortar burst. Last month they leaped with him out of a Flying Boxcar over Munsan, plunged down to earth with paratroopers of the Army's 187th Regimental Combat Team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Under the Gun | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

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