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...mutiny. On strategic Bornholm Island, 200 draftees went on a disobedience strike, called on "all watches to leave their posts." At Holbaek on Zealand Island, 300 men refused to eat their rations, and bought hot dogs instead. Worst of all, a batch of 100 conscripts from the 9th Regiment of the King's Own Foot Guards set off for Copenhagen on a protest march. Other malcontents were prepared to join them on the way to the capital...
...simplest way to get information about Malaya's Communist guerrillas, decided High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer, was to pay for it. His idea paid off. Among the top Communists killed through informers: Manap ("The Jap") Jepun, commander of a Communist guerrilla regiment, and Cheung Kit ("The Ape") Ming, Malacca state committeeman of the Communist Party. Rewards of about $25,000 were paid in each case. Last July, a good month for informers, the Malayan government paid out $75,000 in rewards, based on a rate of $825 for a common, or jungle variety Communist. By year...
...Ragged Regiment. Because hardly anything symbolic of British royalty is ever thrown away, the effigies of king after king and queen after queen accumulated for centuries in Westminster Abbey. Their paint flaked; their plaster cracked; worms burrowed through their woodwork; the disrespectful boys of nearby Westminster School named them "the ragged regiment." About 50 years ago they got so unroyally grubby that abbey authorities would not permit even antiquarians to see them...
Sandbag Castle is a rocky knob on Korea's eastern front held by the U.S. 25th Infantry Division. One day last September, the Reds attacked Sandbag Castle and every man of the 27th (Wolfhound) Regiment was on his toes. Among them: wiry little Corporal Lee ("Korean Joe") Yong...
...Charlie Company's next payday, his buddies dropped $1,800 in a helmet for him, just about all the pay they got. Then the regiment began chipping in, boosted the fund to $4,327, including $900 from regimental members in the U.S. who had known Joe. Last week in Pusan, Joe was being fitted with a Korean-made set of artificial limbs. He still hadn't told his wife-to-be. Said he: "Maybe when she sees me after I get my new arms and legs, she won't be so surprised...