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From nearby hills, the Chinese opened up with rifles, burp guns and mortars. Aided by air strikes and artillery from the rear, the tanks lashed the ridges with their machine guns and 90-mm. cannon. Meanwhile the crews were trying to get out the mired tanks. One came free with a loud, sighing whoosh, and a retriever hauled the mine-damaged tank to the rear...
...just swinging into its bomb run ten minutes from the target when the first fighters flashed down. Major Crecelius' gunners lined up the sights of their radar-controlled 20-mm. cannon. The fighters bored in, slipped under the B-36's tail and banked around for another pass. Suddenly, something went wrong. Screaming down at the "hostile" bomber, an F-51 went out of control, slipped over on its back, and, with a thundering explosion, ripped into the B-36 amidships...
Gullies Full of Dead. In one sector, before launching their infantry, the Reds laid down their heaviest artillery barrage of the war. U.S. guns (including 155-mm. Long Toms, which can fire 15 miles) roared a reply, hurling 25,000 fragmentation and white phosphorus shells on one division front alone. "The gullies in front of us," said an artillery officer, "are already full of Chinese dead, and we intend to keep adding to the piles." The rumble and flash of the guns could be heard and seen almost all the way to Seoul. By the light of parachute flares...
While Belgian and Canadian flags fluttered overhead, Lieut. General Maurice Pope, the Canadian ambassador, turned over the gift as a "reinforcement of the defense of liberty in Western Europe." Then a crane swung a 40-mm. self-propelled gun through the air. Colonel Eugene de Greef, Belgian defence minister, turned to Pope and said: "[A strong army] would be above our powers if we were not effectively helped by American nations and notably by your country...
Water-Borne Assault. Soon the whole 7th Regiment was in the fight. The sodden weather barred air support. Colonel Harris' most useful field pieces - 105-mm. howitzers-could not get up the muddy road. A bulldozer at work widening the road for six-by-six trucks got stuck, which meant that ammunition had to come up by jeep. Colonel Harris decided to launch an amphibious assault...