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Dixieland tunes played by a U.S. Army band piped the 1st Battalion of Britain's Gloucestershire Regiment ashore at Pusan, Nov. 7, 1950. Last week a U.S. band at the same dock played a solemn "God Save the King" as the 1st Gloucestershires boarded the homeward-bound troopship Empire Fowey. Of the original 600 men & officers who landed at Pusan last year only 120 were left...
...audience were expertly cut into live news reports from Washington. There was another filmed sequence of Presidential Candidate Robert Taft happily listening to a eulogistic speech by Senator Everett Dirksen, and some biting realism in a 15-minute documentary of a day in the life of Fox Co., 19th Regiment, 24th Division in Korea. Murrow's aim was to concentrate on soldiers' faces, and he accomplished it with shots of a regimental commander giving a welcoming lecture to a group of replacements, and a blanket-draped sergeant routing out his squad at reveille...
...French Foreign Legion, treats its old formula so lightheartedly that it becomes the beau jest of the genre. Burt Lancaster, the devil-may-care sergeant, recruits nine rough, tough men from the Legion's brig (Gilbert Roland, Kieron Moore, George Tobias et al.) for a dangerous mission. The regiment is away from the fort; Riff tribes are uniting to attack. Lancaster's outnumbered riffraff must hold off the Riffs until reinforcements arrive...
World War II: Was a hard combat leader in the South Pacific. As a colonel training the 9th Regiment, he kept up a relentless pace (often 18 hours a day); his insistence on perfection earned him the nickname, "Combat Ready." Every new marine got a talk from the C.O. Subjects: duty, selfdiscipline, religion (he is a devout Episcopalian). Became a brigadier general in 1943, then led the Cape Gloucester operation at New Britain. On Guam, his ist Provisional Marine Brigade led one of the beachhead assaults; on Okinawa, Major General Shepherd led his 6th Marine Division to its objective early...
...crack French horseman, Colonel Christian de la Croix de Castries. While the armor kept to the road, Moroccans, Foreign Legionnaires and Chasseurs flushed out the valley heights, routing one Communist headquarters. Up from the south came Task Force 2, commanded by handsome, music-loving Colonel Claude Clement. A regiment of Mungs (little mountain people from Hoa Binh country) and tough Vietnamese soldiers, wading neck-deep through rice paddies, cleaned up the river villages. Wherever organized opposition was encountered, spotter planes called in B-26s and Hellcats, directing their fire bombs. Meanwhile, Foreign Legion paratroopers, back in harness after dreary months...