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ARMY MEDICAL SERGEANT DAVID B. BLEAK, 21, of Shelley, Idaho: Entered a trench, killed two enemy soldiers with his bare hands and a third with his trench knife, shielded another U.N. soldier from a grenade blast, and evacuated a wounded companion. "As he moved down the hill with his heavy burden, he was attacked by two enemy soldiers with fixed bayonets ... he grabbed them and smashed their heads together...
...autumn day in 1951 when Private William Speakman of the Black Watch won the Victoria Cross for heroically beating off a Chinese assault with hand grenades (TIME, Jan. 7, 1952), Private Patrick E. Lydon, 26, lay in a nearby trench, cringing with fear. Last week, before a court-martial, his lieutenant told what had happened...
...where's your rifle?' He said, 'I'm hurt, I'm frightened' ... He said he had broken his little finger, but it seemed perfectly all right to me. He was lying on the floor under a shelf dug into the side of the trench the whole time ... I said several times, 'Get up and fight,' and Lydon replied, 'I can't. I'm hurt, I'm afraid.' " Lydon took no part in the desperate battle around him. Finally, the Chinese swarmed up the hill, and one soldier...
...Feet Down. On a rough and rainy night last week, this odd craft was towed to a point 18 miles south of the island of Ponza where the Tyrrhenian Trench is 10,000 ft. deep. Just after the cheerless dawn, old Professor Piccard, a black Basque beret over his white hair, boarded the Trieste from an Italian navy corvette and climbed down a tube leading to the pressure sphere. His son, Jacques, 30, was already on board, crammed among oxygen bottles, apparatus and 102 instruments, including a movie camera. When the professor closed a massive door, the Trieste was ready...
...presumably tell more about his daring voyage to the bottom of the sea. But first he plans to go to Lausanne, where Jacques will be married. Later he hopes to take the Trieste to the east coast of the U.S., where the ocean is much deeper than the Tyrrhenian Trench...