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...wrecked plane lay about 700 yards in front of the U.N. lines. A Korean farmer who crossed to safety in allied territory had told where the plane was, said that it had evidently crashed months before. A team of the U.S. Army's Graves Registration Service, covered by riflemen of the nearest combat unit, went out into no man's land to find the wreck. They found it-a jumble of twisted and melted metal. There were no dog tags, and nothing was left of the pilot but a charred skeleton...
...crosswind whipped the Army's Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground as two riflemen stepped up to the firing line. The marksmen took aim, squeezed off a few single shots, then flipped the rate-of-fire levers on their rifles and sprayed out a rippling burst of full automatic fire at the target. The riflemen were two of the country's top small-arms experts: Major General Julian S. Hatcher, U.S.A., ret., and retired Marine Major General Merritt A. Edson. They were at Aberdeen to try out the Army's secret, new, lightweight .30-cal. automatic rifle...
...they riddled a steel helmet; at 2,000 yds. they ripped through six inches of wooden planking. Fitted with 20-shot clips, the new automatic rifles could rattle off their entire magazines in less than two seconds. When the demonstration was over, even such hard-to-please riflemen as Hatcher and Edson agreed that the U.S. had developed a first-rate new infantry weapon...
...Yesterday," he said, "our Baker Company tried to take a hill. They were driven back and their C.O. was wounded. At the aid station, a couple of riflemen from Point Platoon came back to see how the C.O. was. They asked, 'You want us to take that hill, captain? You just lay still a bit.' Forty minutes later the hill was ours. That's how morale...
...fire with a rifle at targets 1,000 yards away, or with a machine gun at anything in sight, and he has learned to keep close behind his own artillery barrage in an assault. Sometimes he keeps too close. In a recent practice barrage with live artillery ammunition, five riflemen were killed...