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Thirst & Beatings. As war correspondent for the London Observer, Author Deane had flown from Athens "to cover this little war." He hitchhiked his way to Taejon in time to see Major General William Dean's green 24th Division chopped to pieces by 15 divisions of North Korean Communists. On his very first day, he helped with the wounded. He saw the army "doctors operate ceaselessly, their hands bare, blood spattered down their fatigues. No rubber gloves, no white smocks here. Stitch this, clip that, sponge, stitch, clip, saw-faster, faster, faster, there are more waiting." At the front...
Major General William F. Dean, former 24th Infantry Division commander, who got the Medal of Honor in absentia after his capture outside Taejon in 1950, will get some news from Washington to brighten his grey life in prison camp: President Eisenhower nominated Dean (a Regular Army brigadier general with a temporary two-star rank) for permanent major general...
...Admiral Daniel signed six copies of the agreement-two each in English, Chinese, Korean-with six different fountain pens, gave the pens to Panmunjom oldtimers. † A Communist correspondent at Panmunjom said that Major General William F. Dean, missing hero of Taejon, would not be returned in the first exchange, because he is in excellent health...
...Korea from his base at Hong Kong when the war broke out. He started by covering naval operations, and wrote Last Train from Vladivostok, the memorable story of a landing party which mined a railroad tunnel (TIME, July 24, 1950). The next week Fielder joined the land forces at Taejon and was killed in action. Since then four of TIME'S correspondents have been injured in Korea. The risks of covering a war come high...
Last week in Tokyo, the Army announced that a body found in a ditch near Taejon ten months ago had been identified as Wilson Fielder's. He was the fifth TIME-LIFE war correspondent killed since the beginning of World War II and one of 14 U.N. correspondents killed covering the Korean...