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Bunkers & Blasts. Heartbreak Ridge has been the fiercest Korean battle in four months, worse than Bloody Ridge, worse than the Punchbowl. The North Koreans were holed up in stout, deep bunkers that resisted direct artillery and mortar hits. When they lost some of these in hand-to-hand fights, they threw in a series of heavy counterattacks, using five regiments one after another. Twice Americans got to the top, only to be blasted off by enemy fire. This week neither side held it, although at some points on the slopes their positions were only yards apart. The dirty, unshaven...
Died. Master Gunnery Sergeant Lou (Leland) Diamond, 61, No. 1 mortar man of the Marine Corps and long its greatest living legend; of a lung ailment; in Great Lakes Naval Hospital, ILL. A roaring, weatherbeaten old China hand, he spent his off hours downing beer by the case, persistently refused a commission ("No one can make a gentleman out of me!"), created new legends wherever he served. On Tulagi, in World War II, they told how he smashed 14 Japanese buildings in a row with his 81-mm. mortar, then popped a shell down the chimney of the 15th. Reverent...
...Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson this week, can never go back to pre-Korea levels since the U.S. is "still an expanding economy." When costs and prices rise and dollars cheapen, savings can be protected only by converting them into ownership of "things"-including shares in the land, tools, bricks & mortar of U.S. industry. Moreover, arms spending, already at the rate of $2.5 billion a month, is really just getting under way, will rise to at least twice that before it tapers off. By the time it slackens, two or three years hence, huge new backlogs of deferred demand for peacetime...
...Assistant Producer Fred Feldkamp, scripter on both Crusade pictures,* who freshened up his knowledge of the Pacific theater on a trip to Tokyo for talks with surviving enemy foot soldiers and officers. In one interview, he found that the Japanese ex-officer, with whom he was talking, had directed mortar fire on the town of Garapan, Saipan, where Feldkamp, a World War II Marine Corps combat correspondent had been crouching in a hole ducking the fragments...
Near Yonchon on the western front one night last week, a U.S. battalion was hit without warning by what one officer called "the damndest mortar and artillery barrage I know of." A few hours later a screaming, bugle-blowing Chinese regiment attacked the Americans and cut them off. It was the heaviest fighting on the western front since the truce talks in July...