Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early next morning, five miles from Newcomerstown, Ohio, trouble developed in the air brake system. In a murky fog, the troop train ground to a stop. Out of the early morning roared the Pennsylvania's crack twin diesel Spirit of St. Louis. The first unit of the diesel hurled the rear coach of the troop train in the air, sheared the second car to floor level, hurtled into a creek. The second unit derailed a third car. Two cars of the Spirit of St. Louis plunged from the track...
...forces began to hold, their commanders ordered a series of daring, small-scale counterattacks, to rescue units cut off in the first phase of the Red assault. Near Masan, a counterattacking rescue battalion smashed through heavy North Korean forces to save the remnants of a unit whose steadfast refusal to yield a razorback ridge near Soehon played a major part in stalling the Reds' southern drive. The ridge was a key position controlling the broad valley of the Nam River down to its junction with the Naktong...
When the rescuers arrived, they found only twelve men still able to fight. The unit had been cut off for 38 hours, had lost all of its officers during the numberless Red attacks...
...unit's heroes was a Japanese-American corporal named Hideo Hashimoto, who had spent World War II in a Japanese internment camp in the U.S. Hashimoto, a right-handed pitcher for his regimental baseball team, had crept out on the edge of the ridge, hurled grenade after grenade with deadly accuracy at the advancing Reds. In one attack, Hashimoto was throwing grenades at Red troops less than 20 yards away. When he ran out of grenades, Hashimoto pitched rocks...
...Louis Blues. The Britons cheered. Many of them were World War II veterans; all had just completed 16 months' training in Hong Kong over hilly country almost identical with that of Korea. Said Sergeant George Morrison, sniffing the paddies: "It even smells the same." Attached to an American unit, the Tommies pronounced American rations "very good," but complained of the coffee. "Can't drink it," said one Londoner. "When is tea coming up?" The British will use their own weapons and ammunition except for the U.S. 3.5-inch bazooka. At week's end the Ladies from Hell...