Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once wrote you about Colonel John H. ("Mike") Michaelis reading a copy of TIME while he waited for the Air Force to blast Red concentrations then attacking his heroic 27th Regiment (TIME, Oct. 16). Two weeks ago I told you about the many letters we get from TIME-reading G.I.s and officers in combat. But John Warren Smith insists that there is "no need to go to distant lands to find people reading TIME under hardships." A former Columbia University graduate student, 22-year-old Private Smith sent me the following story to prove his point...
...slow mails from the war zone left us waiting for word from the man himself. The replies were worth the wait. "Your timely portrayal of the American G.I. in Korea is unparalleled in its reality," wrote Sergeant John A. Cook of the 5th Cavalry Regiment. "Weand I believe I speak for most of usappreciate the tribute you have given us dog-faces...
...something all American people should know" . . . "Keep up the good work, TIME". . . "Expressed my views perfectly". . . "If I were a reporter or writer, that is what I would have written". . . "I praise your staff on the excellent coverage of the Korean war." Corporal "Tex" Herzog of the heroic 27th Regiment called TIME "the best magazine in the world," but wanted us to change the name to the Weekly World Magazine...
Maps in the Dining Room. The G.I. belonged to Colonel John ("Mike") Michaelis' proud 27th Infantry Regiment, which had put the fear of the U.S. Army into many a North Korean soldier. Now it was screening the U.N. retreat in this section of the city. Michaelis had set up his command post in the dining room. He stood before his tactical maps with his division commander, Major General John Church, commanding officer of the U.S. 24th Division. There had been some concern that the Chinese-who had started to move into the city from the north and northeast that...
...Yongsan, Korea, handsome Master Sergeant Travis Watkins, 29, of Gladewater, Texas, took command of 30 infantrymen who had been cut off from their regiment, led them to a defensive position where they held out for four days under unremitting Communist attack. When ammunition ran low on Sept. 2, Watkins shot five North Koreans outside his perimeter, calmly left shelter to get their weapons and ammunition. Although wounded himself, he fired on six other Reds who threatened to enfilade the American position. His back was broken by enemy machine-gun fire, but he continued to fire until all six were killed...