Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a mass of Chinese soldiers burst out of a concealing curtain of brush and charged Company E, 19th U.S. Infantry Regiment, last Nov. 5, there seemed, in the first split second, nothing that any man could do to stop them. The men of the 19th were caught by surprise in scattered holes and ditches along a ridge near Chonghyon. The Chinese started their dash only 100 ft. from the 19th's most forward outpost...
...Pattons flared fiercely under hits. Two others struck mines. The column rolled into battered Munsan through vicious enemy rifle and machine-gun fire. Throughout the night, Reds to the north and east shelled and mortared paratroopers and rangers who were stalking the rear elements of a North Korean motorized regiment which had been retreating north when cut off by "Operation Tomahawk." The Red guns were still going throughout the next morning. Helicopters threshed in to dusty landings in the D.Z. and whirred up again with wounded men. In the sunlight, the red, blue, green, yellow and white cargo chutes...
...paratroopers of the 187th Airborne Regiment floated to earth near Munsan, an armored force 30 miles away was moving to join up with them. With the overland operation was TIME Correspondent Tom Lambert. His report...
...24th division of the Eighth Army, including the all-Negro 25th Regiment, he cited that the ratio of Negro to white troops is one to 3.7. Out of 118 complaints, 54 Negroes and 27 whites were arraigned. Of these, 32 Negroes and only two whites were convicted for cowardice, yet the records show no such disparity in the fighting performance of the troops...
...battery, together with a battalion of 105-mm. artillery and an infantry unit, started north from Hoengsong to back up the South Korean 8th Division. When a ROK regiment broke under attack, the U.S. troops found themselves on their...