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...want your shoe tied.'' asked Lieut. General Matthew Ridgway...
...Ridgway knelt down and tied the shoe. "Is that too tight?" he asked...
...gesture for a lieutenant general. Hammon and his fellow marines would never forget it. But for Matthew Bunker Ridgway, a soldier who possesses a passionate sense of detail, an instinct for the bonds that unite a commander and his troops, and a nice flair for showmanship, it was no effort at all. A few minutes later the general climbed into his helicopter and whirred off to another sector of his front line...
This week, with the precision of a machine, the marines and other divisions of Ridgway's Eighth Army ground their way northward over the mountains of central Korea. Their general's orders were simple: "Use every daylight hour to seek out and destroy the enemy. Inflict maximum casualties and sustain a minimum of your own. Withdraw to strong defensive positions at night. Search every piece ground. Do not push on until you have eliminated every Communist...
Such a tone may have sounded over-optimistic for an army facing an enemy three times its size, with huge reserves ot trained manpower behind him. But in fact, it sensibly understated the Eighth Army's present capability. In the last two weeks battle Ridgway's men had inflicted an estimated 30,000 casualties on Chinese and North Korean Communists, at small to themselves...