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Glib Dick Grossman, who devotes much of his time to warnings of sinister U.S. machinations to dominate Europe, now unabashedly argued: "I suggest that a platoon of American soldiers is a far greater deterrent to the Russians than a division of German soldiers...
Escaped East Germans have given West German interrogators a thorough picture of the Vopos. Aside from the occasional guarding of Red army arsenals, they have no police duties, but live in old Wehrmacht barracks and train in the art of war. Out in the field they rehearse platoon and company maneuvers, learn to operate heavy machine guns and the "Stalin Organ" (a multi-tubed rocket launcher). They have a naval arm of 10,000 and a fledgling air force. The Volkspolizei is a police force that walks like an army...
...Godlike as the Great White Queen's commissioner. Batho marched off, his upper lip aquiver. He issued an order: "No more Kgotlas." The Bamangwato sat back guzzling Kaffir beer (a native brew made of yeast, marmalade, syrup and raisins) and took no notice. But when Batho sent a platoon...
...thousand yards out in no man's, land, Baker Company dropped off its third platoon in blocking position, sent the other two prowling north, past the moonlit hulks of three wrecked U.N. tanks. In a group of medics behind the skirmish line, Corporal Donald Reddick of Portland, Tenn., carrying a litter, had just slithered off the end of a paddy dike when the Chinese opened fire. Rifle bullets snapped overhead and then the enemy charged out of the dike shadows, throwing grenades. One exploded near Reddick, smashed his right knee. "I'm hit!" he shouted. The man next...
...Ralph Bennett of Haversville, Conn., a rifleman in the lead platoon, began firing his Garand when the Chinese attacked. His squad mates saw him go down, like a tackled halfback, under a swarm of enemy. When four husky Chinese began dragging him away, the other Americans held their fire for fear of hitting their own man. But Bennett wrenched free, knocked one Chinese down, and ran for his own outfit, with several Reds in hot pursuit. Bennett yelled for covering fire, and a U.S. machine gunner dropped the Chinese who were chasing him. Five yards from the shelter...