Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quite Impossible. Each day Ridgway shuttled across the front in his helicopter, marshaling his troops as carefully as a Roman general. When he left the column on Thursday, he headed for the landing strip where Captain Mike Lynch picked him up in an L17 liaison plane. Back at his headquarters, he said goodbye to General Mark Clark, Army Field Forces commander, who had visited Korea on an inspection trip. Then he went out to do some more inspecting...
...either be a general or a dead colonel," cracked G.I.s last summer about the hottest regimental commander among U.N. forces in Korea. At Taegu's bloody "bowling alley," John Hersey Michaelis (rhymes with regale us), better known as "Mike," and his redoubtable 27th Infantry (Wolfhound) Regiment, now better known as "The Fire Brigade," fought bravely and brilliantly to help hold the Pusan perimeter. Sinewy Mike Michaelis won a battlefield promotion to full colonel, and the D.S.C. for "extraordinary heroism" under fire...
...command when his superior was killed, won battlefield promotion to colonel. He was wounded twice in Holland, but managed to leave the hospital in time for the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, he was aide to Chief of Staff Dwight Eisenhower. On leaving the Pentagon, Ike wrote Mike how proud he had been to "have had as aide a sterling young combat officer...
...feature match, the Crimson's top man, Larry Brownell, blanked Milton's number one player, Ed Knowlton, 2 to 0. Captain Mike Ward, playing number two for the Yardlings, dropped a close 3 to 2 decision to Al Fenn, but Andy Miller, Ted Rose, and Haddon Tomes came through with easy victories in the three, four, and five slots to clinch the match...
Probably the biggest upset among the individual bouts came at 147, where Dick Deets decisioned Bud Adams of the Crimson, 6 to 0. Up to that point, Johnny Lee and Captain Dave Smith kept their undefeated records intact, as Lee gained a 3 to 0 decision over Mike Guaizijan and Smith pinned Ed Meloni...