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...words of its editors, the recent issue of Cosmopolitan contains one of the most explosive documents ever published. Major General Charles Willoughby wrote the article and directed it against newspapermen who criticized General MacArthur's Yalu River campaign last fall. But in blasting "the ragpickers of modern journalism" General Willoughby lets slip some interesting revelations about his own management of military intelligence...
...MIGs are now based chiefly just across the Yalu in Manchuria. But in recent months, said Vandenberg, the Communists have made a major attempt to repair and defend three airfields 90 miles to the south, near Pyongyang. If they succeed in putting these fields into operation despite U.S. bombing attacks, they will be able to challenge U.N. air supremacy even over the battle line itself...
Attacks on Communist supply lines, which so far have kept the Communist army stalled, would be reduced to only a fraction of their present effectiveness. "In other words," said Vandenberg, "the air space between the Yalu and Pyongyang, in which we had previously been able to operate unhindered, is now a 'no man's air,' and has become the area of decision in the Korean air war." He added ominously: "If [the enemy] wins in the air, the stalemate on the ground is not likely to continue...
...strike at the Red airstrip under construction at Taechon, 45 miles south of the Yalu. U.N. escort fighters were able to beat off Russian-built MIG interceptors, and the only loss-one of nine bombers attacking-was to flak. The pilot nursed the crippled 6-29 out over the Yellow Sea, where Lieut. Donald A. Birch used his precision bombsight to aim parachuting fellow crewmen at a tiny island. Twelve were rescued...
...high peaks no more. But every day he walks 20 blocks to the campus of his university, where he works at his experimental station. There are still snow projects that he wants to complete. First on the list: to check the survey possibilities on the headwaters of the Yalu River between North Korea and Communist Manchuria...