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...complaint: truce inspection is a farce, for only the U.N. observes it. Not a Sabre jet leaves Korea, not a howitzer is junked or a Patton tank replaced on the U.N. side, without its being reported to the NNSC and thence, via the Czechs and the Poles, to Pyongyang, Peking and Moscow. U.S. soldier replacements disembarking in Korea are greeted by Communist officers, who click them in with hand counters as they march off their Army transports. Yet on the North Korean side of the truce line, an immense and illegal buildup has gone on unchecked...
Landing on the Riviera, Johnston lugged his recording gear through Savoy to the link-up with Patton's army, advancing through the dragon's teeth of the Siegfried Line. The Seine was his fifth river, but the only experience Johnston records in Paris is of an unsuccessful brothel crawl. Soon he was back with Patton, blasting a path towards the Americans encircled in Bastogne. That Christmas, General Patton issued greeting cards with a prayer for good weather so that his fighter-bombers could strafe the Nazi armor. When the skies began clearing slowly, old Blood and Guts ordered...
...disappointments, McCurdy still got an amazing performance from junior Art Siler. Siler won the discus throw with a heave of 155-5 1-2, four inches more than Yale's Stew Thomson, and in the shot put, he surprised everyone by finishing second to Thomson, defeating Army's Dave Patton and Yale's Tom Henderson. The Crimson's Roger Mechanic was fifth in the discus...
...Feeling. On the general subject of peace between East and West, the President had a hopeful hunch. "George Patton used to say that no man is a soldier unless he has a sixth sense," he recalled, "and then he would describe that sixth sense . . . For him it seemed to work. It was suddenly to make your decisions on your own guess and throw all of the G-2 people out the window. Now I confess I have a feeling that things are on the upswing. But I can take every single favorable point and balance it by something that doesn...
...fireball disappeared, some 1,400 were being helicoptered in to seize the atomized battlefield, theoretically blasted clean of enemy troops. For the 13th shot, the Army's Task Force Razor this week was poised to ride out the explosion in the most exposed surface position to date: in Patton tanks, spread 50 yds. apart, some 3,100 yds. from ground zero, and in new M59 armored personnel carriers 3,900 yds. from ground zero. Just as soon as monitor teams reported a safe level of radiation, the armored column would roll forward to exploit the atomic attack, ready...