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...hurry for his share of glory. His father, a New York man, had lost a leg at Shiloh, and afterward had taken his family west to New Janesville, Minn. Albert learned the "rifle art" from a Winnebago Indian named Winneshake, and thus prepared, enlisted in the First Minnesota Regiment of Heavy Artillery...
...integrate Koreans into their units, in the same fashion as the American KATUSA (they will be called KATCOMS). In the present resi-and-training phase, the division is composed of three brigades, one Canadian, one Scottish-English, one mainly Australian, and other smaller units, including a New Zealand artillery regiment. The Canadians and Anzacs are all volunteers. They are commanded by Major General Michael Montgomerie Alston-Roberts-West, who prefers to be known as Mike West...
...moment, there was no sign of quarreling among the pallbearers. While the new regime dug in, the rest of the world might get a breathing spell, But the death of Stalin itself did not change any fact of geography, economics or ambition; it did not destroy a single Soviet regiment nor ground a single MIG, nor stop a single...
...Korea last week, United Press's Veteran Correspondent Victor Kendrick set off on a routine assignment: a reaction story on the 65th Puerto Rican Infantry, which was being reorganized after 97 members were charged with "bugging out" under enemy fire. Kendrick spent hours touring the regiment's front-line positions. Just as he was ready to leave, a lieutenant stepped up, demanded Reporter Kendrick's notebook, tore several pages from it and handed it back. I.N.S. Correspondent John Casserly, on a similar assignment, had the same thing happen to him; picture captions jotted down...
While the Chinese Communists were not pushed into the Korean war by the Soviets as were the North Koreans, now that they are involved, Schwartz feels, they won't give up except on their own terms. At home, they are skillfully using the emergency to "further regiment the economy and the people...