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...paid. At last Ross said, "I guess you're a writer. All right then, goddammit, write." So Thurber continued to write pieces and, in addition, he and White and one legman for 7½ straight years got out "The Talk of the Town," which, nowadays, requires virtually a platoon. Between them, White and Thurber pretty much set the tone of the magazine that Ross had created...
That night in Korea, Private Thompson's platoon got orders to fall back; the North Koreans were attacking in force. The 24th was grouped for the withdrawal when the first enemy waves crashed into their positions. Two doughboys grabbed machine guns, started pouring lead into the charging ranks. Willie Thompson was one of them. Enemy fire got the other machine gunner. Willie kept blasting away, spraying belt after belt of withering fire to hold back the Reds. His platoon formed up again and started moving out. The lieutenant ordered Private Thompson to retreat. He refused. He said...
Green to combat but trained to leadership, many in the '48, '49 and '50 classes had gone off to become section and platoon leaders, but they had had to learn the deadly lessons of combat under enemy fire. One outfit, Able Company, 7th Regiment, 3rd Division, went ashore at Wonsan last November with West Pointers leading three of its four platoons. By February, two had been killed and the lone survivor, All-America Quarterback Arnold Galiffa, had been taken out of front-line combat to become General Ridgway's aide. In another company...
...height of the Day River battle (see above), Bernard de Lattre, leading a platoon of Vietnamese troops, volunteered to hold an isolated position in order to give French forces who had been cut off a chance to fight their way clear. Read the citation: "Completely isolated, he resisted victoriously during the whole night . . . all the assaults of a fanatical enemy mass." During the night, a mortar shell hit the young platoon leader. Concluded the citation: "He fell heroically, giving an example of the finest military virtues...
...Platoon Leaders Course...