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That night when the six-man patrol waded across the Naktong River, Correspondents Emery and Churchill were with it. Only for Emery was it an entirely new experience; Churchill was a World War II commando officer and renowned for his flamboyant courage under fire. All went well for two hours, while they prowled around in the Communist lines. Then, as they started back, the Reds opened fire and three mortar shells exploded among them. Both Emery and Churchill were hit by shrapnel; the G.I. between them was so badly wounded that he was abandoned. The patrol waded and crawled back...
...They Like Girls' Pictures." Roy Manring and his platoon were defending a position near Hill 303, a bleak bump in the terrain east of the Naktong River, a few miles northeast of battered Waegwan, when the enemy began to infiltrate the U.S. lines. Roy's platoon leader asked battalion headquarters for reinforcements, and was told that 60 South Korean soldiers would move up shortly...
That night the North Koreans tried to march their prisoners across the Naktong, but U.S. fire stopped them. "If you slipped they kicked you," said Pfc. Manring. "We started calling 'Mizu, mizu!' That's Jap for water. But they said 'No, no, American planes go tatatata.' Boy! Are they afraid of airplanes! When our planes come over they kept real quiet and gave us branches to put over our heads...
...Last week, for the first time in the Korean war, the 6-293 were turned out to make a mass tactical strike. Ninety-eight Superforts of Major General Emmett O'Donnel's Far Eastern Air Force Bomber Command hit Red positions along the west bank of the Naktong River near Waegwan...
...Morgan Beatty, who alternates reading the minds of the Politburo with such "colorful" items as Hollywood's reporting an increased G.I. demand for pinup girls; and Mutual's Frank Edwards, who claims to have tipped his listeners in advance to the B-29 bombing on the Naktong front and usually sounds willing to punch anyone who disagrees with...