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Somehow, the flow of bright ribbons was still not trickling down to the enlisted ranks.* Near Waegwan a few months ago, a corporal named Everett L. Elmore headed his boat across the bullet-torn Naktong River for the enemy-held shore. Mortar shells crashed alongside, machine-gun bullets stitched a pattern against its sides. Corporal Elmore rallied his panic-stricken passengers, delivered them to the beachhead, and went back for more. On his last trip, Corporal Elmore was mortally hit. He got the Bronze Star Medal-posthumously-an award for "heroic achievement" not deemed to be of sufficient degree...
...Alone." Unhappy, scared and wishing he had never left Bayonne, Popko was loaded onto a truck with 60 other G.I.s, and started along dusty "Cavalry Boulevard" toward the Naktong river front. Says Popko: "After the first couple of days we got to be pretty good. We learned the tricks. We knew what to watch for and when to fire and how to take care of yourself. If you can Jive through the first couple of days, you got a chance...
Heaviest strike of the week and second heaviest of the war (the biggest was along the Naktong River near Waegwan...
...southern front, the job of leading the breakthrough from the Naktong went to Lieut. Robert W. Baker, 25, hamhanded, barrel-chested commander of Company C, yoth Tank Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division...
...Tuesday his resistance still seemed determined. The high command in Tokyo announced the capture of Seoul, but within the battered capital fierce street battles raged. Along the southern perimeter, the North Korean withdrawal from the Naktong went stubbornly...