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...objective," says President Herter, "is to put into the international blood stream a group of skilled and select men." The job has not always been easy. President Herter and his overseers (among them: Air Secretary Thomas K. Finletter, U.N. Delegate Warren Austin) soon realized that without the facilities and backing of a big university, they would never be able to do all they hoped to do, or to get all the financial support needed to keep going...
...wounded. They carried the wounded through the valley at the foot of the ridge and up a narrow trail to an aid station just beyond the bean fields where General Craig sat sweeping the height with his field glasses. I sat there beside him, wondering if the stream of litter bearers would ever stop coming up out of that damned valley...
...wonderful and thrilling, too, to ride the pipeline into Korea. The EUR-545, the C-46s and 47s stream into the airports of Japan, laden with everything from battlewise noncoms to dismantled artillery...
...lined with a cone of thin metal. When the charge explodes, the wave of detonation starts at the rear of the shell; when the explosive waves hit the point of the metal liner, the metal comes under immense pressure and acts like a thin fluid. Like a jet-propelled stream of toothpaste, the fluid metal spurts forward, at speeds up to 30,000 feet a second. The jet of liquid metal and gas can pierce more than eleven inches of armor plate. Shaped-charge shells are also equipped with rocket-like fins to give a steady flight without the spin...
Great Hopes. From West Coast ports sailed two carriers laden with planes. Farther westward, occasional warships crept into Pearl Harbor, vanished into the reaches of the Pacific. Through Hawaii flowed the other, inevitable, steady stream of war-commercial airliners out of the Far East carrying hundreds of civilian evacuees. Two airborne arrivals flew directly on to Washington. They were Generals J. Lawton Collins and Hoyt S. Vandenberg, chiefs of the nation's ground and air forces, fresh from consultation with Douglas MacArthur. Their colleague, Admiral Forrest Sherman, was in Washington consulting with Congressmen. The day after the Korean Reds...