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TIME Corespondent Frank Gibney cabled: "A gloomy lieutenant told of leaving six men in his platoon who were unable to walk. 'Lieutenant, what is going to happen to us?' one asked weakly. The lieutenant said, handing them grenades, 'This is the best I can do for you.' One group of G.I.s, before running to safety through crossfire, propped up a wounded buddy in the middle of the road, where he could raise his hands to surrender. As they tore across a paddy field, they turned back to have a last look at their friend...
Smack into Ambush. After the first evacuation of Chonan, U.S. commanders discovered that the Communists had failed to follow and that some 15 miles of unoccupied road lay behind. Angry and ruffled, they turned one platoon around and sent it north. The platoon-led by jeeps instead of tanks-ran smack into an enemy ambush...
...aircraft, and (in the afternoon) a baseball game. Tempelhof field was jammed by 100,000 Berliners who had turned out with baby carriages, folding chairs and lunch boxes to see the show. Star attraction proved to be the famed seven-minute silent drill of the 558th Infantry Rifle Platoon, a crack Negro outfit which used to be General Lucius Clay's honor guard; the soldiers went without music or orders through intricate, breathtakingly precise evolutions that would have overwhelmed the British Grenadiers-or the Rockettes. Exclaimed one former Wehrmacht noncom: "Why, they're practically better than the Prussians...
Jordan added he would use the two platoon system to as great a degree as the material permits. He pointed out that he was forced into it because his opponents use two platoons...
...Platoon System...