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...French battalion is commanded by Lieut. Colonel Ralph Monclar, a short, bespectacled Foreign Legion veteran who gave up his major general's rank to fight in Korea. Monclar allows his men, and General MacArthur, to address him as "man General," but in official acts he is a lieutenant colonel. Said Chiles: "I can't make him walk on my right as a general should. He says to me: 'You are the regimental commander. I command a battalion. I walk on the left.' And he does...
Last week Lieut. General Matthew Ridgway presented Monclar's men with the Distinguished Unit Citation, first such award to a non-American outfit in Korea...
...haired commander of the 23rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, covered the Eighth Army's retreat. At Wonju in January, the 23rd hung on. At Chipyong last week, Freeman and his men held down the hot corner again. With them was a tough French battalion commanded by Lieut. Colonel Ralph Monclar, a Foreign Legion veteran who had given up his general's rank to take his men to Korea...
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