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...initiative to drive the enemy off." Hurling grenades like a madman in a crockery shop, Speakman led his six men in charge after charge-ten in all-leaving "an ever mounting pile of enemy dead." A bullet caught him in the leg, and an officer ordered him to the rear. "What," roared Speakman, "and leave all my lovely grenades...
...people's hopes & fears lay in five thin paper folders placed by the Communists on the conference table at Panmunjom. "We herewith exchange our lists," intoned the U.S.'s Rear Admiral Ruthven Libby. The Red negotiators picked up a fat directory of 132,474 names, the prisoners of war now held by the U.N. Admiral Libby picked up the five thin folders: a roster of 11,559 U.N. fighting men named by the Communists as their prisoners. Among them were the names of 3,198 U.S. soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen, including that of Major General William Dean...
...Cadillac limousine belonging to the Yellow Cab Company of Providence, attempted to pass the bus and was forced to swerve back into lane to avoid hitting a car coming in the opposite direction. Its right rear fender was damaged, and it took several minutes to free the two vehicles. No one was injured in the accident...
...more than 1,000 times before. Then suddenly there was a series of bumps and agonizing screams. Samson ground to a stop."What's happened?" his conductress,Dorothy Dunster, called out. "I don't know," said Samson, dismounting and running to the rear. Then, "Oh, my God!" he cried. "What have I done...
...Walter Edmonds turned historian in They Fought with What They Had to tell the griefs of U.S. airmen in the first months of the Pacific war; and the submariners got some of their due in Vice Admiral Charles Lockwood's Sink 'Em All and Battle Submerged by Rear Admiral Harley Cope and Captain Walter Karig. For pure excitement, there was nothing better than the diary kept by a French fighter pilot in the British air force, Pierre Clostermann's The Big Show...