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Last week, after nine months in Korea, weather-beaten Chesty Puller, 52, assistant commander of the ist Division, veteran of the Inchon landing and the Marines' heroic retreat from the Changjin Reservoir, was back in the U.S. to take over a training command...
Blodgett's vegetables grow in narrow, shallow concrete beds which look like giant window boxes and are filled with gravel; three times a day, they are fed with water containing the necessary nutrients (nitrogen, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium). The water, drained back by gravity into an underground reservoir, is used over & over again. There are two farms, one at Chofu, 14 miles from Tokyo, the other near Kyoto. The larger installation at Chofu has 50 acres of hydroponic plots in the open and five acres under a million-dollar greenhouse, has its own ice plant and railroad siding...
...Chunchon last week spelled out the words, "P.O.W.s-19-rescue." An Air Force observer spotted the sign and radioed an armored U.S. task unit. A short while later, three tanks rolled up to Chunchon to rescue 18 marines and a G.I. who were captured last December in fighting at Changjin Reservoir. The 19 had spent the last six months being herded from prison camp to prison camp. Except for the endless days and hours of forced marching back & forth over Korea's mountains, none of the prisoners had any complaints. "The Chinese fed and clothed us the best they could," said...
...advancing Reds had closed the floodgates of the huge Hwachon Dam just above the 38th parallel. Result: the level of the Pukhan River, which is fed by the Hwachon Reservoir, fell sharply, depriving retreating U.N. troops of a valuable defensive barrier. Last week the U.S. Army asked the U.S. Navy to do something about...
...Reds attacked in the area of the Hwachon Reservoir dam (taken by U.S. troops without a fight last week before the Red drive began) and at other points farther west. On a 15-mile front, they pushed across the Imjin River, wading the waist-high water. In the extreme west, U.N. forces pulled back twelve miles to help hold the Imjin bridgehead in check. In the first twelve hours the Communist attack spread across 50 miles of front, in 24 hours across 100 miles...