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...those of us sitting on the hill with General Craig, the terrible intensity of the aerial action could only indicate a fierce, personal desire of the Marine pilots to avenge the dreadful toll taken of their comrades on the ground. The pilots seemed unable to wait long enough to finish one strafing run before wheeling their blue-black craft around in the skies for another; they jerked their planes sharply out of bombing dives, made turns so tight that we were sure some of them would crash...
...probable toll would be much like that at Hiroshima (70,000 killed, 70,000 injured). Within 3,000 feet of the burst, 80% died. At 4,500 feet the mortality rate was down to 50%, at 6,500 it was 15%. Some U.S. cities in business hours have 150,000 to 250,000 people in the four-fifths of a square mile covered by the half-mile radius. An air burst over them would kill many more than died at Hiroshima...
...Toll charges will be relatively small: a New York-to-Washington hookup, for example, would cost customers about $30 an hour on an eight-hour-a-day contract...
After five weeks of war in Asia, the toll of correspondents stood at six dead, one missing, one prisoner, three wounded...
...Britain's famed Spitfire) struck from the carrier Triumph, hit similar targets farther to the south. Earlier, U.S.British naval units sank five or six attacking Communist torpedo boats off Samchok. At week's end a Red shore battery scored a hit on the British cruiser Jamaica. The toll: six dead, three wounded. They were the first British naval casualties of the Korean...