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Airborne leathernecks of the Marine Corps' First Air Wing made a dashing debut in Korea last week. Taking off from a Navy carrier, gull-winged Corsair fighter-bombers attacked antiaircraft emplacements, troop concentrations, bridges and transports in the vital Chinju area. In low, ground-hugging runs, the Corsairs flushed Red soldiers out of haystacks and woods...
Some correspondents agreed with Senator Bridges that "something must be done at once . . ." Said one Tokyo newsman: "It's time we faced up to the fact that a premature report of a troop landing means lives. I don't think we should take any more chances." Unless the Army is willing to institute censorship, or at least enforce an ironclad rule against reports of troop movements still in progress, it is virtually certain that more chances will be taken...
...desperate effort to throttle Red supply lines and impede their tank and troop movements, Major General Emmett O'Donnell's big B-29s joined Allied fighters and tactical bombers in an "interdiction campaign"-striking enemy communication lines in South Korea. It was a measure of the critical stage of the war in Korea last week, for B-29s were never designed to do the work of tactical aircraft...
...week's end some Russian soldiers moved along Iran's northern border. The Iranians keeping cool said that this movement seemed to be a normal change of garrisons and that there was no sign of a major Soviet troop concentration...
This gun fires on a relatively flat trajectory with extraordinary accuracy. The Long Tom (maximum range: 14½ miles) can reach into enemy assembly areas, hit tank and troop concentrations and supply depots before the attack begins. In World War II the Long Tom was widely admired in all theaters as a tough, reliable weapon...