Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last week, two U.N. columns jumped off for the final assault on the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. The 5th Regiment of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division drove out of the mountains 16 miles south of Pyongyang. The R.O.K. 1st Division punched in from a point eight miles southeast of the city. The R.O.K. troops were commanded by Brigadier General Paik Sun Yup, a man with a grim ambition to be the first into Pyongyang. Five years ago the city's Communist rulers had sawed off the head of General Paik's baby...
...paid homage at a hillside cemetery where lie Americans and Koreans killed in the Inchon campaign. He was host at a dinner for Marine regimental commanders, giving weatherbeaten Colonel Lewis ("Chesty") Puller of the 1st Marine Regiment the place of honor. On the Inchon waterfront Almond saw tanks loaded aboard LSTs. He flew in a Piper Cub 200 miles south to inspect the 7th Infantry Division in another staging area; he watched the doughfeet, stripped to the waist in the warm South Korean sun, maneuver through combat exercises in paddy fields and up hillsides...
...92nd combat record was spotty. It became a polyglot group, absorbing other U.S. and Allied contingents. On the 366th Regiment's front, some Negro troops fell back precipitately before an enemy attack,* a British Indian unit had to close the gap in the line. Once, at a forward post under machine-gun fire, Almond ordered a sergeant to go out and silence the enemy gun. After a while the sergeant came back...
...during August Osborne went up to the Korean front to be with the battered 19th Regiment of the 24th Infantry Division. The 19th had taken a terrific beating during its long, well-fought holding action. Osborne had with him a copy of the current issue of TIME (Aug. 14), which carried Correspondent Frank Gibney's story about the 19th Regiment. While talking to" Colonel Ned Moore', Osborne gave him the issue. It was the first account of his outfit the colonel had seen. He read it, and expressed his surprise and pleasure at the credit...
Another copy of TIME was kicking around the 27th Regiment headquarters at Chindong the day Osborne was there. It was a rough day. The 27th and elements of one other regiment were trying to hold the line until the marines arrived. Colonel John H. ("Mike") Michaelis called for an air strike to relieve the pressure on his men. The U.S. planes came over, hit the wrong target, and had to be redirected. At this crucial moment Osborne glanced at Michaelis. He was standing, bareheaded, in the street by the radio truck, reading TIME...