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First night out, the Juneau and her destroyers maintained a northerly course. The ship's loudspeaker announced: "We are now steaming 6,000 yards off the Korean coast. If we spot troop movements or targets of opportunity we will close and take them under fire...
...moving down from the hills towards the vineyards of the south. The colonel ordered all his men in the area out of uniform and let it-be known that he himself was off to Rome. Then he baited a trap for Giuliano's vanity. He sent a troop of carabinieri into the wine district camouflaged as a moving picture unit. They were ordered to spread the word that they were making a picture about bandits. The unit was told to drop strong hints that a leading role might be available for Giuliano. With no names mentioned, a series...
From the moment he proclaimed U.S. air & sea support for the reeling Koreans, Harry Truman had seen the next fateful decision marching toward him in seven-league infantry boots. At midweek he ordered the National Security Council into secret session to size up U.S. troop positions in the Far East. Before the council lay Douglas MacArthur's report that the U.S. doughfoot would have to come and come fast to South Korea if the high-sounding words of 24 hours before were to have any meaning...
...Heirs of Colin Kelly. It was upon the reverent Stratemeyer and his Far East Air Forces that MacArthur placed the first heavy burden of U.S. operations in Korea. FEAF's 400-odd fighters, 60-odd bombers and one troop carrier group were scattered halfway across the Pacific. From bases in southern Japan, Stratemeyer sent out jet F80 Shooting Stars and F82 Twin Mustangs to strafe North Korean trucks, locomotives and armor. From Guam he called up B-29 Superfortresses to pound Seoul's Kimpo airfield...
...Utah, Utah," cawed a Brooklyn voice. "What part of Connecticut is Utah?" "Who won the war, who won the war," chanted a troop from Massachusetts, and Georgians replied: "The South did-and do you all want to fight it over?" "Ah, go wire ya mudder...