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...what has happened to the famed nth Marine Artillery Regiment? We have four of the shootingest artillery battalions in Korea. Not only can we shoot, but we can hit what we see. The 3rd Battalion has expended over 300,000 rounds of 105-mm. ammo since [it] landed at Inchon on the 23rd of September...
British reinforcements poured in. In 36 hours, R.A.F. transport planes airlifted 3,500 red-bereted paratroopers, originally ticketed to Abadan, from Cyprus to Fayid, British GHQ in the Canal Zone. They arrived looking fit, ready and mean. An infantry battalion and the 33rd Airborne Regiment followed. In Britain, 3,000 miles away, four-engine R.A.F. Hastings transports were gassed up to fly the crack igth Infantry Brigade to Suez. The 8,000-ton cruiser Gambia hove into Port Said...
...inertia. In the west, they hit the 1st Cavalry Division with 5,300 artillery and mortar shells in two days, and with 300 rockets in one hour (World War II Katushas, fired from multiple launchers mounted on trucks). In the same sector, a weakened battalion of the 7th Cavalry Regiment* was attacked from three sides, overrun and cut to ribbons...
...same regiment that was wiped out under Custer, at the Little Big Horn...
...Cuff. Cary knows what he is writing about. During World War I he fought through the Cameroons campaign as an officer in a Nigerian regiment, later became magistrate of a district deep in the bush. Of the four novels that have come out of his African experience, Mister Johnson is the best, at once humorous and sympathetic, fresh and exuberant as Negro gossip...