Word: wolfhounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking command (in August) of Army forces in Alaska: lean, grey-haired Major General John H. Michaelis, 46, onetime (1947-48) aide-de-camp to Chief of Staff Dwight Eisenhower, combat-proved commander (1950-51) of the famed 27th Infantry ("Wolfhound") Regiment, which held off North Korean armies in the Pusan perimeter while U.S. forces massed for a crushing breakthrough...
Sandbag Castle is a rocky knob on Korea's eastern front held by the U.S. 25th Infantry Division. One day last September, the Reds attacked Sandbag Castle and every man of the 27th (Wolfhound) Regiment was on his toes. Among them: wiry little Corporal Lee ("Korean Joe") Yong...
Last week the island's commander, Colonel Maurice J. Fitzgerald, ordered the combat-famed U.S. 27th (Wolfhound) Regiment, which now guards Koje, to screen Compound 62 and give the non-Communists a chance to get out. At 5:30 a.m., a battalion of Wolfhounds under Major John J. Klein of Houston, Texas, moved in hoping to catch the prisoners asleep. But prisoner sentinels gave the alarm...
...either be a general or a dead colonel," cracked G.I.s last summer about the hottest regimental commander among U.N. forces in Korea. At Taegu's bloody "bowling alley," John Hersey Michaelis (rhymes with regale us), better known as "Mike," and his redoubtable 27th Infantry (Wolfhound) Regiment, now better known as "The Fire Brigade," fought bravely and brilliantly to help hold the Pusan perimeter. Sinewy Mike Michaelis won a battlefield promotion to full colonel, and the D.S.C. for "extraordinary heroism" under fire...
...month of almost continuous action, the U.S. 27th ("Wolfhound") Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division had never retreated unless it was ordered by higher command, and most of the professionals on the Korean front thought they knew the reason why: the 2yth Regiment had something no other outfit had. That something was its commander, a lean, pleasantly hard-bitten West Pointer named John Hersey Michaelis, 38. Last week, the men of Colonel Michaelis' 27th combat team tangled with a capable and battle-tested foe, a 45-year-old North Korean lieutenant general named Kim Mu Chong, onetime commanding general...