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Twelve miles north of Yoju, the French battalion, fighting together with a U.S. regiment, smashed a desperate Chinese attempt to outflank their position. After taking 3,600 casualties, the broken attackers retreated to the north...
...Miryang, far behind the lines, the 2nd Battalion of Canada's famed regiment, the Princess Pats, still training, was spoiling for a fight...
...once wrote you about Colonel John H. ("Mike") Michaelis reading a copy of TIME while he waited for the Air Force to blast Red concentrations then attacking his heroic 27th Regiment (TIME, Oct. 16). Two weeks ago I told you about the many letters we get from TIME-reading G.I.s and officers in combat. But John Warren Smith insists that there is "no need to go to distant lands to find people reading TIME under hardships." A former Columbia University graduate student, 22-year-old Private Smith sent me the following story to prove his point...
...slow mails from the war zone left us waiting for word from the man himself. The replies were worth the wait. "Your timely portrayal of the American G.I. in Korea is unparalleled in its reality," wrote Sergeant John A. Cook of the 5th Cavalry Regiment. "Weand I believe I speak for most of usappreciate the tribute you have given us dog-faces...
...something all American people should know" . . . "Keep up the good work, TIME". . . "Expressed my views perfectly". . . "If I were a reporter or writer, that is what I would have written". . . "I praise your staff on the excellent coverage of the Korean war." Corporal "Tex" Herzog of the heroic 27th Regiment called TIME "the best magazine in the world," but wanted us to change the name to the Weekly World Magazine...