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...traded its horses for trucks and tanks eight years ago. But today's troopers, though most of them have never straddled a horse, still cherish traditions of the days of boots & saddles and of dashing General George Custer,* who once commanded the division's famed 7th Cavalry Regiment...
...Someone Woke Me." Last week the past seemed to rise up and haunt the cavalrymen. On its way to bolster up crumbling R.O.K. forces in northwest Korea, the division's 8th Regiment dug in for the night near Unsan, 80 miles north of Pyongyang. When morning came, the few troopers who were awake could not believe their ears. Said Pfc. Henry Tapper: "Someone woke me up and asked me if I could hear horses on the gallop. I couldn't hear anything, but then bugles started playing, far away." Pfc. William O'Rama, who was sitting...
...Roof Fell In. Before the 7th Regiment had a chance to wet a saber, the roof fell in. Throughout northwest Korea the Communists started unexpectedly strong counterattacks supported by tanks, artillery and mortars. One North Korean force cut the main supply road to Chosan, isolated the R.O.K. 7th Regiment on the Yalu. Three more Red battalions surrounded part of the 6th Division near Onjong, 50 miles south of Chosan. At Unsan, 70 miles north of Pyongyang, a regiment of the R.O.K. ist Division was enveloped by 7,000 Communists. Thirty miles west of Unsan, U.N. air strikes failed to break...
...Wonsan, headquarters of Major General Edward Almond, a U.S. X Corps spokesman said that one Chinese Communist regiment was in action near Changjin...
...Nearly 3,000 British troops drawn from the Royal Ulster Rifles, the Gloucestershire Regiment, the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, the Royal Armored Corps. ¶ The advance party of a 10,000-man Canadian force...