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...either be a general or a dead colonel," cracked G.I.s last summer about the hottest regimental commander among U.N. forces in Korea. At Taegu's bloody "bowling alley," John Hersey Michaelis (rhymes with regale us), better known as "Mike," and his redoubtable 27th Infantry (Wolfhound) Regiment, now better known as "The Fire Brigade," fought bravely and brilliantly to help hold the Pusan perimeter. Sinewy Mike Michaelis won a battlefield promotion to full colonel, and the D.S.C. for "extraordinary heroism" under fire...
Yale and Army, one and two in 1950, will once again be slight favorites both in the afternoon field events in Yale's Coxe Cage in New Haven and evening races at the 102nd Regiment Armory in New York. Ten Eastern colleges are participating. The Elis have defending champions in sprinter Corson Ellis, vaulter Neil King, their second-best vaulter, and an almost intact two-mile relay team. The West Pointers return with titlists Dick Shea, two miler, and Harold Shultz, hurdler...
...week's end, the Communists had taken casualties estimated at 33,000. South of Seoul, Puerto Rican G.I.s literally annihilated a Communist regiment; after a round-the-clock shelling north of Ichon, U.S. artillerymen reported 1,100 Chinese Reds dead in their foxholes. At Wonju and Chechon the hills were littered with enemy dead and abandoned weapons. U.N. planes dropped leaflets over the Communist lines; on them was printed a terse "Count your...
...Kunu last December, Colonel Paul Freeman, 43, silver-haired commander of the 23rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, covered the Eighth Army's retreat. At Wonju in January, the 23rd hung on. At Chipyong last week, Freeman and his men held down the hot corner again. With them was a tough French battalion commanded by Lieut. Colonel Ralph Monclar, a Foreign Legion veteran who had given up his general's rank to take his men to Korea...
...Military service (as in Asiatic armies) often betters their living standards. The Spanish army gives its soldiers comforts unavailable to many civilians: three solid meals a day, warm clothing, good leather boots, free medical care, even legal aid. Camps and barracks may grow their own vegetables. One motorized artillery regiment just outside Madrid has 400 pigs. Its commander boasts: "Cerdo [pork] is one of the secrets of the fine fighting spirit of my men. Give them cerdo twice a day and a gun, and nobody can stop them...