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...Guamanian, Filipino and Marshallese laborers applauded lustily, the two men got carefully into the dusty automotive ruin-climbing over the front seat because the rear doors were stuck-and rattled off to a Quonset hut which a Pan American foreman had surrendered for the occasion. The general sat down on a rattan settee, the President on a wicker chair. The door closed. It stayed closed for one hour. Nobody heard what was said...
Every general has his pet dicta. One of Almond's favorites is "no tanks to the rear," a logical sequence of his conviction that a soldier must use every weapon he has to the uttermost to kill the foe and save his own skin. "The place of the tank," he explains, "is at the front destroying the enemy. If it goes back, even though for gasoline, we lose two things: firepower and the morale of the foot soldier. The foot soldier moving up can well ask himself, 'What the hell?' if a tank passes him going...
Finally, his rear gas tank hit and his controls damaged, Jones gave up. On the way back, Corporal Whittall had to lie on the floor of the cockpit, holding one of the controls in place with a knife. Jones knew he could not make it back to the Rochester, brought his craft down on the Han River in territory then still held by the Reds. Jones and Whittall took to their rubber life raft and reached an island in the river. As soon as the moon came up, they were rescued-by a helicopter...
...Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy...
...tricky Reds infiltrated U.S. lines at night, or by day disguised as white-clad peasants, and shot up U.S. positions from the flank and rear. The Kum line could not be held. The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division and the 25th Infantry Division arrived from Japan to help the battered 24th, and Lieut. General Walton Walker was appointed MacArthur's ground cornmander in Korea. The Americans fell back from Taejon to Kumchon, the next important junction on the rail and road line to Pusan...