Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...competitive drill among the six Army platoons will precede the review. The winning group will receive a streamer to attach to the unit guidon for next year. The batteries with the best academic and disciplinary ratings will also receive streamers...
...Last week Lieut. General James Van Fleet awarded the Presidential Unit Citation, highest U.S. group award, to Sergeant Major Thomas Blackford, C Company, representing the 1st Battalion of the Gloucesters (see cut). Said the citation: "By holding their positions and fighting fiercely above & beyond the call of duty, this magnificent battalion was surrounded and cut off by overwhelming Chinese forces. . . . Their epic stand will go down as one of the most valiant in modern times...
...Pace . . . incidentally did not receive his instructions due to a breakdown in a power unit in Pusan...
...marines' left, in the Hwachon area, an R.O.K. division was holding eight miles of front. Although this Korean unit had fought well in other battles, its men were frightened by the heaviest artillery, mortar and small-arms fire they had ever seen, and completely demoralized by the Reds' attack signals: bugles, whistles, green flares. The ROKs broke...
Last week Lieut. Colonel Hess (220 missions in the Korean war) and his outfit were honored by President Syngman Rhee and General Kim Chung Yul, commander of the South Korean air force. Rhee gave them a presidential unit citation, and Hess was personally awarded an ox-traditional Korean prize for champion archers and fencers. The prize drew amiable jeers from Hess's compatriots. "Hey, colonel," yelled a tousle-headed pilot from Illinois, "all you need now is half an acre of land and you can settle down here for life...