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Last week, on the front north of the Punchbowl, a whole battalion of marines -nearly 1,000 men-was moved to a mountainous front-line sector by helicopter, in the largest operation of its kind to date. Twelve big Sikorskys made a total of 162 round trips, finishing the job, without a hitch or a casualty, in 6 hr. 15 min., almost an hour ahead of schedule. The landing point was within range of enemy mortar positions, but apparently the Reds could not see what was going on; no hostile fire was received...
Bunkers & Blasts. Heartbreak Ridge has been the fiercest Korean battle in four months, worse than Bloody Ridge, worse than the Punchbowl. The North Koreans were holed up in stout, deep bunkers that resisted direct artillery and mortar hits. When they lost some of these in hand-to-hand fights, they threw in a series of heavy counterattacks, using five regiments one after another. Twice Americans got to the top, only to be blasted off by enemy fire. This week neither side held it, although at some points on the slopes their positions were only yards apart. The dirty, unshaven...
...east-central front, around an embattled hollow nicknamed the Punchbowl, U.S. Marines made the deepest U.N. penetrations into North Korea since last December. Wielding flamethrowers and bayonets, aided by planes, Army artillery and tanks, the leathernecks clawed their way up towering crags. From caves and log-roofed bunkers, North Koreans fought back doggedly, but the flamethrowers finally made the Reds break...
Glamour Magazine has caught up with Carstairs Whiskey in the current issue and passed the punchbowl to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, associate professor of History, as "a man who cares." Sighting along the barrel of a trusty briar, he is pictured "getting the future in focus" in the current issue...
...tribe of Brazil the souls of the dead did not want to leave this earth, and offered stout resistance. When a man died, his relatives gathered food and liquor, heaped them around the grave. The neighbors marched round & round, blowing horns, shaking rattles, screaming, and helping themselves from the punchbowl...