Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edward Arthur Craig had also fought his way across the Pacific, in battles other than theirs. He had been a combat commander (9th Regiment, 3rd Marine Division) at Bougainville and Guam, a crack operations officer for the V Amphibious Corps at Iwo Jima. He won the Navy Cross, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit...
...training under live ammunition, a practice which the Army discarded but recently resumed. This year they rehearsed an amphibious demonstration, "Operation Demon III," for the Army's Command & General Staff College. One of the 1st's companies ran off a cold-weather landing exercise in Alaska; a regiment put on an airlift assault on cactus-covered San Nicolas Island off the California coast. If & when the time comes for the U.S. units to break out of the beachhead in Korea, Craig's great store of amphibious know-how will come in handy for assault landings behind...
TIME Correspondent Frank Gibney was in Pusan last week when the first troops of the U.S. 1st Marine Division, confident and well equipped, arrived from the U.S. and moved out to the front. Later, Gibney went up to join a regiment of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division, which had been fighting steadily for 31 days. What he saw, a platoon-eye view of the war, gave a very different picture from sweeping communiques of how the Americans were doing in Korea. Gibney cabled...
JAMES SHELTON, a 21-year-old private from Company D, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, was awakened from the sleep of the exhausted by the zing of Communist bullets over his foxhole. For an hour before, confident Communist infantrymen, their conical Russian helmets sticking up like mushrooms through the early morning mist, had marched along a steep dirt road to a mountain pass commanding the U.S. positions. Wakeful U.S. sentries heard the Reds singing snatches of Communist marching songs as they pulled an aged, creaking, Russian heavy machine gun up the steepening slope...
...Mansei!" Almost on the heels of the first wave of Reds came a U.S. counterattack. Spearheaded by five tanks and two M-8 reconnaissance cars, truckloads of G.I.s from the 19th Infantry Regiment roared through the pass and down into the valley below. Heavy Communist fire damaged the two recon cars and three tanks. The G.I.s, supported by covering fire from the pass, spilled out of their trucks, began fighting a day-long melee in the valley and on the crests of the surrounding hills...