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...either be a general or a dead colonel," cracked G.I.s last summer about the hottest regimental commander among U.N. forces in Korea. At Taegu's bloody "bowling alley," John Hersey Michaelis (rhymes with regale us), better known as "Mike," and his redoubtable 27th Infantry (Wolfhound) Regiment, now better known as "The Fire Brigade," fought bravely and brilliantly to help hold the Pusan perimeter. Sinewy Mike Michaelis won a battlefield promotion to full colonel, and the D.S.C. for "extraordinary heroism" under fire...
...guerrilla-style fighting is the 1st Marine Division (by last week well recovered from the ordeal of its fighting retreat to the sea in December). Recently, the marines have been pitted against the North Korean 10th Division, which had reached the Andong area, only 50 miles north of Taegu...
...prisoners said that the loth had been ordered to seize Taegu after blocking the Andong-Taegu rail & road line. They never came near that ambitious goal...
About three weeks after Popko had moved to the front, the big attack came -part of the enemy's hard-driving try to take Taegu. Popko's squad was holding the left side of Hill 303.* The enemy came up in three banzai-screaming waves. "Once I was going to get out of the hole and throw my rifle away and go over the hill. You can't explain how it is. You just think you can't stand it any more. But the guy in the next hole to me started talking sense into...
Thousands of dwellings had been destroyed in Seoul, Taegu, Taejon and in numberless villages. Korea's industry had been shattered. Steel and aluminum plants had been crippled or destroyed. At Hungnam, the largest fertilizer plant in Korea had been heavily damaged. Inchon's locomotive works and railway repair shop lay in ruins. Ninety per cent of South Korea's railway bridges and the majority of her electric substations had been smashed...