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...Sergeant John A. Pittman, 22, Company C, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Division, a farmer's son from backwoods Talulla, Miss. On November 26, near Hamhung, Sergeant Pittman volunteered to lead his squad in a counterattack against an enemy-held hill. The Chinese poured down mortar fire, burp guns began their deadly whinny. Pittman went down with a mortar-fragment wound, got up, pushed doggedly forward. A grenade landed in the midst of his squad.* Hero Pittman threw himself upon the missile, smothered the blast with his body. He left a hospital to get his decoration. ¶1st Lieut. Carl...
...troops and 2,700 guns from St. Mihiel to the Meuse-Argonne front in 14 days. General Pershing called him the finest officer of the war, took him on as his aide from 1919 to 1924. Marshall spent the next three years on duty with the isth Infantry Regiment at Tientsin, China...
...Helping Patton during the Sicilian campaign in 1943, Wedemeyer, then a brigadier general, asked to be reduced to the rank of colonel so that he could take command of a regiment...
...gallant, bloody stand of a battalion of Britain's crack Gloucestershire Regiment* in battle against the Chinese (TIME, May 7), which brought home to Britons, as nothing had before, that they were in fact at war with a regime they had been trying to appease...
Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell told the House of Commons last week how gallantly the men of Britain's Gloucestershire Regiment had died in Korea (TIME. May 7). Up rose M.P. Raymond Blackburn, independent ex-Laborite,with a searing question: Why had Britain supplied Red China with thousands of tons of iron & steel, vehicles, aircraft parts, rubber? Wasn't it "high time we ceased to supply the people against whom our boys are fighting...