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Last September, after studying railroad construction during his basic training period, Wang was made a platoon leader in an artillery unit of General Tsung Tsu-yu's army. It was a fairly well equipped outfit of between 20,000 and 30,000 men. Each company had 50 or 60 rifles with 120 rounds per rifle, ten or twelve submachine guns with 200 rounds, two 60-mm. mortars with 30 or 40 rounds, and 15 antitank grenades. Each man had four hand grenades...
...Warrior of Liberation." Tsung's army crossed the Imjin last month. On May 15 it headed for the Han, to wipe out the U.N. bridgehead. The Manchurian farmer's battalion had twelve field pieces, and his platoon operated two of the 76-mm. pieces, with 60 rounds for each gun. Supplies of shells got up to the front pretty regularly...
...Pittman threw himself upon the missile, smothered the blast with his body. He left a hospital to get his decoration. ¶1st Lieut. Carl H. Dodd, 26, of Company E, 5th Infantry Regiment, a coal miner's son from Kenvir, Ky. On January 30, Lieut. Dodd's platoon was pinned down near Subuk by crossfire from cleverly camouflaged machine-gun nests. Dodd alone stood up, charged the first nest singlehanded, wiped it out. The Chinese started heaving down grenades. Dodd pitched them back, hollered for his men to move up, dashed on without waiting. The platoon followed, bayoneting...
...bewhiskered, dust-covered 2nd Lieutenant Davis U. Merwin '50 of the Marine Corps about two weeks ago. He's a platoon leader out here and has been on the front almost continuously for a couple of months. Has the most dangerous job there is, I guess. Before I know he was here, I witnessed a Marine assault on hill under fire and wrote a piece on it. Later, I found that he had led that assault...
During the same drill 39 graduates of the two Army and Air Force units were commissioned as second lieutenants in the respective services. Six Army platoons competed in a military drill which was won by Platoon Two of Battery...