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Then, as U.S. troops advanced up the slope of Hill 303, the North Koreans retreated. "When they were gone," Roy continued, "I got up and took off. I could hear the BARs and see the G.I.s coming. I ran toward them. I didn't have no helmet on and no shoes and I guess they thought I was a Red, because they started shooting at me. I saw this BAR cutting across the grass, and I flopped down. It hit me in this hand . . ." Roy Manring feebly lifted his right hand and continued: "I yelled...
...morning before dawn, under a quarter moon, Captain Frederick T. Griffiths of Cleveland shouted these brave words to his combat-green company. The Communist enemy was swarming down on them from the crest of a ridge. After the astonished Reds had been chased off the hill, down the far slope and off another hill, Captain Griffiths exulted...
...sticking up like mushrooms through the early morning mist, had marched along a steep dirt road to a mountain pass commanding the U.S. positions. Wakeful U.S. sentries heard the Reds singing snatches of Communist marching songs as they pulled an aged, creaking, Russian heavy machine gun up the steepening slope...
...east, where the mountains rise abruptly out of the Japan Sea, there are few good harbors. On the western side of the peninsula, the mountains slope gently into the sea and natural harbors are numerous, but their usefulness is reduced by huge tides. Inchon, the port of Seoul is bedeviled by 29-foot tides. The best harbor is Pusan, now held by the US from which in 1592 the Koreans sent a turtle-shaped ship, the world's first ironclad, to beat the invading Japanese...
...uncover a glow seen 200 miles away. Not from the crater, where it usually erupts, but out of the southwest flank of the mountain melted rock burst and shot 300 ft. up; steam shot higher to 20,000 ft., striking a passing plane. Through two other vents in the slope, streams of glowing lava oozed out, surged 25 miles...