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Three whole R.O.K. divisions have been held in South Korea for anti-guerrilla work. In addition Police Chief Kim Tae Sun has detailed part of his 55,000 national police. The U.S. 187th Airborne Regiment, which had no jumping missions last week, was patrolling the Seoul-Pyongyang highway. Attached to the 187th for anti-guerrilla duty were the British 29th Brigade and the Philippine contingent...
These sections are organized into air armies, each consisting of three corps, with three divisions to a corps, three regiments to a division, and three squadrons to a regiment. A squadron has 30 to 50 planes...
...Black Watch (so called from its somber Scottish tartan and original duties as a Highland guard) was first organized as a regiment in 1739. Families of three counties (Perth, Angus, Fife) supplied most of the first recruits, have continued to do so ever since, making the Black Watch "in truth a family, with ... ancestors and descendants." For 200 years the infantrymen of the Watch marched to war in kilts; with the coming of World War II they were ordered-to prevent identification-into common khaki uniforms. "But damn it!" roared an enraged Jock on hearing this shocking news, "We want...
...Every regimental history is doomed, by nature, to be at best partly uninteresting to the average reader, at worst wholly uninteresting even to members of the regiment concerned. But able Author Fergusson has done all that can be done to explain the Black Watch to the remotest commuter without ever failing in his duty as scrupulous recorder. The skirl of the Black Watch pipes, the pawky character of its men, and the family feeling that pervades and binds them-all these do much to raise The Black Watch above the level of mere soldierly documentation...
...offenses, e.g., "Dunlop, five years for sabotage; Dykes, four years for breaking a picture of Hitler over the head of a guard; Thomson, five years for making an unprintable remark about Hitler . . ." Black Watchers were not only disrespectful prisoners, they were restless ones. Every captured officer of the regiment made at least one effort to escape...