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...invent the art of guerrilla war, but they were once very good at it. U.S. military history is studded with great guerrilla names-General Francis Marion ("the Swamp Fox"), who fought hit & run campaigns in the Carolinas and Georgia in the American Revolution; Captain John Mosby, Confederate raider in Virginia and Maryland; General John Hunt Morgan of Alabama.* In World War I, when mass production and massed firepower became an overriding factor, Americans lost interest in the art of making much of little. In Korea, the U.S. is being forced to rediscover the lost...
...Korea for the first Marine battles there. In World War I, Smith, as a fledgling Marine officer, had been sent to Guam-of all places-where the only German he might have sighted (he did not) would have been Count Luckner, the Kaiser's famed sea raider. Pearl Harbor found Smith in-of all places-Iceland. He missed the 1st Marine Division's epochal blooding on Guadalcanal...
...reinforced their positions, managed to put 40,000 men on the island against the marines' 10,000. The 1st suffered hundreds of air raids and a devastating shelling from Japanese battleships and cruisers. One of Guadalcanal's heroes was Colonel Merritt ("Red Mike") Edson of the 1st Raider Battalion (he later became a two-star general), who used to walk from group to group, yelling: "Listen, all those Japs have that you haven't got is guts...
...Tokyo Raider Jimmy Doolittle announced that he was ready to fight in Korea "if my services are required." Onetime West Point Halfback Glenn ("Mr. Outside") Davis, registering for the draft in Los Angeles, declared that he was "just like everybody else in this." General Electric's President Charles E. Wilson offered to take a top war production job in Washington if the Administration wanted...
After two months of studying U.S. pedagogy, Count Felix von Luckner, famed German sea raider of World War I, set sail for Germany, where he will help teach democracy to the kinder. The count's parting observation: "You know, I love America...