Word: pattons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GOOD Friday morning was cold, brisk and sunny. Lieut. Colonel John S. Growdon of San Antonio moved his task force of Patton tanks through the South Korean 1st Division lines a few miles north of Seoul and headed for the D.Z. (drop zone) at Munsan...
There was little opposition at first. Master Sergeant Arthur Tucker's Patton hit a mine about eight miles north of Seoul while reconnoitering a bypass around a blown bridge. Its left tread peeled off like a snake's discarded skin; the men inside crawled out to shiver in the sunlight. Then an armored scout car, with a British bridge-building detachment, hit another mine, bounced up & turned over. Two groggy but otherwise uninjured Britons climbed out. A South Korean jeep coming over to inspect the double mishap struck a third mine, was blown into a tangle of steel...
Last week two teams of doctors described chemicals that are as efficient as maggots at digesting dead tissue and other waste matter-not only in surface but in internal diseases. One is an extract from the pancreas, called trypsin, reported by Drs. Howard Reiser, Richard Patton and L. C. Roettig of Ohio State University. Trypsin, an enzyme often found in the excretions of maggots, has already proved itself valuable in cleaning out dead cells and pus in the chests of tuberculous patients (TIME, Nov. 6). "Its use in war wounds," said the Ohio doctors last week after a year...
...critically watching the two lines of infantrymen shuffle up the road a few hundred yards ahead. Neatly hooked to the web harness he wore over his trench coat were a paratrooper's first-aid kit and the hand grenade that has become as famous a trademark as George Patton's pearl-handled pistols...
...PATTON Bergenfield...