Word: regimentations
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...34th Regiment scraped together a convoy of 113 vehicles and barreled through the outskirts of the city, but was halted when enemy shells set fire to an ammunition truck at the head of the column. The driver of the next truck drove through a hail of enemy fire, rammed the exploding ammunition truck off the road, and led the rest safely through the lines...
...Paik Sun Yup, the division commander, reached out his hand and gave me a gold-toothed "How do you do?" in English. At 30, Colonel Paik is rated the best field commander of the Korean army. His younger brother, 27-year-old Paik In Yup, commander of the iyth Regiment, was wounded in fighting farther north after successfully leading his regiment out of the precarious pocket. The two Paik boys' are a shining contrast to the inefficient, sluggish South Korean commanders who bungled the early days of fighting in the west. As the pressure grows, they and others like...
Last week U.S. and South Korean ground forces had their first tangible evidence of the growing effect of air action on North Korean morale. Into the forward post of a South Korean regiment near Koesan walked eight unarmed Reds, their hands raised high over their mustard-colored tunics. They had come to give themselves up. The Communist sergeant said his units now rarely attempted to move anywhere by daylight, reported that Red morale and provisions were running low in some sectors. "The bombing," he said, "is just...
Conspirator (M-G-M). The Sally Benson script, based on the Humphrey Slater novel, is more a study of stupidity than treason. Robert Taylor, a wooden-faced major in a British Guards regiment, has been a Red agent since he was 15, apparently because he enjoyed his conspiratorial adolescence in Ireland. He breaks party discipline by marrying Elizabeth Taylor, an American visitor to London, who is portrayed as vain, vapid and addicted to double-takes. Since even his addlepated wife soon catches on that he is a traitor, the party orders Robert to kill her. On a duck hunt...
...troop-carrier and cargo planes that would be available if the U.S. were attacked this week. Nevertheless, the Air Force's able, 43-year-old Lieut. General Lauris ("Larry") Norstad, in command, has had to tailor his plans to his restricted fleet of aircraft, dropping one regiment at a time on the North Carolina countryside...