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...during August Osborne went up to the Korean front to be with the battered 19th Regiment of the 24th Infantry Division. The 19th had taken a terrific beating during its long, well-fought holding action. Osborne had with him a copy of the current issue of TIME (Aug. 14), which carried Correspondent Frank Gibney's story about the 19th Regiment. While talking to" Colonel Ned Moore', Osborne gave him the issue. It was the first account of his outfit the colonel had seen. He read it, and expressed his surprise and pleasure at the credit...
Another copy of TIME was kicking around the 27th Regiment headquarters at Chindong the day Osborne was there. It was a rough day. The 27th and elements of one other regiment were trying to hold the line until the marines arrived. Colonel John H. ("Mike") Michaelis called for an air strike to relieve the pressure on his men. The U.S. planes came over, hit the wrong target, and had to be redirected. At this crucial moment Osborne glanced at Michaelis. He was standing, bareheaded, in the street by the radio truck, reading TIME...
...south prong-a regiment under famed Colonel Lewis ("Chesty") Puller-fought a hand-to-hand battle in Yongdung, where the main Inchon-Seoul road joins the southbound road to Suwon. Scores of bayoneted Reds perished...
...Thank You, Sir." It was early 1944 when Smith got into the war as a colonel commanding the 1st Division's 5th Regiment (part of his command in Korea today). By then the 1st had long since finished its dreadful battle for Guadalcanal and was floundering in the mud and rain of New Britain...
When the hard-fighting 27th (Wolf hound) Infantry Regiment stopped a Communist tank drive on Taegu a month ago, the New York Herald Tribune's pert, fearless Correspondent Marguerite Higgins cabled an eyewitness story of the four-hour battle. Last week, in a letter to the Trib, the regiment's hard-bitten Colo nel J. H. ("Mike") Michaelis complained that she had left out something important. He supplied...