Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simplest way to get information about Malaya's Communist guerrillas, decided High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer, was to pay for it. His idea paid off. Among the top Communists killed through informers: Manap ("The Jap") Jepun, commander of a Communist guerrilla regiment, and Cheung Kit ("The Ape") Ming, Malacca state committeeman of the Communist Party. Rewards of about $25,000 were paid in each case. Last July, a good month for informers, the Malayan government paid out $75,000 in rewards, based on a rate of $825 for a common, or jungle variety Communist. By year...
There were thrilling sights: the grey files of West Point cadets and the brave flutter of massed colors. There were grim moments too. When a regiment of marines, dressed in combat fatigues, passed in review, the crowds cheered, and when that ominous-looking colossus, the atomic cannon, rolled past, all voices were hushed. And there were old inaugural standbys: the brother rats from V.M.I., the plumed Richmond Blues, the paunchy Governor's Foot Guards of Connecticut in scarlet coats and shakos...
Sandbag Castle is a rocky knob on Korea's eastern front held by the U.S. 25th Infantry Division. One day last September, the Reds attacked Sandbag Castle and every man of the 27th (Wolfhound) Regiment was on his toes. Among them: wiry little Corporal Lee ("Korean Joe") Yong...
...Charlie Company's next payday, his buddies dropped $1,800 in a helmet for him, just about all the pay they got. Then the regiment began chipping in, boosted the fund to $4,327, including $900 from regimental members in the U.S. who had known Joe. Last week in Pusan, Joe was being fitted with a Korean-made set of artificial limbs. He still hadn't told his wife-to-be. Said he: "Maybe when she sees me after I get my new arms and legs, she won't be so surprised...
After having breakfast one day, at the Institute of 1770, with T.R., upon the invitation of my classmate. Archie Roosevelt, I became a firm adherent of the "Preparedness" school. Graham B. Blaine ball in an editorial campaign to get a Harvard Regiment, started. As I remember, we were at one time summoned to the house of President Lowell, who tried to dissuade us from this project. Later on, Mr. Lowell changed his mind and withdrew his objections. The episode impressed itself upon my mind, because it was my first experience with "freedom of the press...