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...dotting the perimeter guarding the Army's 25th Division near Masan, Korea last August, a thin, hollow-eyed G.I. sat intently watching the dark no man's land ahead. He was Pfc. William Thompson of M Company. His buddies in the 25th's all-Negro 24th Regiment knew him as a professional type-always quiet, never talkative about his past. There wasn't much Private Thompson wanted to tell. Born out of wedlock, he had been brought up by his grandmother in New York City tenements, had finally run away and been taken into a shelter...
...Seven Negroes won the Medal of Honor in 1898; five were members of the 10th Cavalry Regiment on San Juan Hill, the other two were Navymen...
Green to combat but trained to leadership, many in the '48, '49 and '50 classes had gone off to become section and platoon leaders, but they had had to learn the deadly lessons of combat under enemy fire. One outfit, Able Company, 7th Regiment, 3rd Division, went ashore at Wonsan last November with West Pointers leading three of its four platoons. By February, two had been killed and the lone survivor, All-America Quarterback Arnold Galiffa, had been taken out of front-line combat to become General Ridgway's aide. In another company...
...Communists stood last week and fought ably, stubbornly. Well-executed Chinese counterattacks frequently stopped allied spearheads and turned them back. At some points, U.N. and Red infantrymen lobbed grenades at each other from strongpoints several yards apart. A Negro squad leader of the 25th Division's 24th Regiment, asked by telephone if he was in close contact with the enemy, answered: "Close contact, sir? We're eyeball to eyeball...
...will not find any area in Germany large enough for its divisional maneuvers. One of the emerging facts of military history is that Hitler's generals managed to train more than 100 divisions of his Wehrmacht without being able to maneuver a unit larger than a regiment. Says General Thomas Handy, boss, under Eisenhower, of the European Command (EUCOM): "I guess...