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Conversation in a Foxhole. Peace, of a sort, came to the 1st Marine Division. Its first postwar station was Tientsin, China, where it helped Chinese forces manage Japan's surrender. One regiment returned to the U.S. and was disbanded; most of the career fighters were sent to Guam, where they lived in wretched ramshackle huts. On Guam, they came to know better the tall, quiet, professional general whom they had "taken aboard" in China as assistant division commander...
Edward Arthur Craig had also fought his way across the Pacific, in battles other than theirs. He had been a combat commander (9th Regiment, 3rd Marine Division) at Bougainville and Guam, a crack operations officer for the V Amphibious Corps at Iwo Jima. He won the Navy Cross, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit...
...training under live ammunition, a practice which the Army discarded but recently resumed. This year they rehearsed an amphibious demonstration, "Operation Demon III," for the Army's Command & General Staff College. One of the 1st's companies ran off a cold-weather landing exercise in Alaska; a regiment put on an airlift assault on cactus-covered San Nicolas Island off the California coast. If & when the time comes for the U.S. units to break out of the beachhead in Korea, Craig's great store of amphibious know-how will come in handy for assault landings behind...
...Negro troops last week scored the first sizable American ground victory of the Korean war, and incidentally provided an answer to the Communist charge that Americans were warring against the "colored" races of Asia. The Negroes were men of the famed 24th Infantry Regiment...
Louis Johnson's economy drive. In Korea last week, a front-line officer said bitterly: "What can you do with a damn two-battalion infantry regiment? You have no base to deploy around, no reserve-and no tactics, because all our tactics are founded on the assumption that you have three full battalions to maneuver with...