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What had bitten Boston was the news that last year's winners, Kee Yong Ham, Kil Yoon Song and Yun Chil Choi, had been granted temporary deferments and were training for the marathon near Pusan. The Boston American published a smoking editorial headlined, WHO Is TRAINING FOR WHAT? and ran a picture layout of U.S. soldiers marching through the snow with the caption, BOSTONIANS TRAINING FOR KOREA...
...From the moment I regained my senses after being wounded (for the second time in Korea) until I read your article, slowly and painstakingly with the one eye I now have left, I prayed for news of my outfit . . . I was one of an advance patrol which advanced past Yong-Sung-Dong to draw the first fire from the Chinese. My thanks to TIME for courageously and truthfully telling our story . . . GEORGE A. HAVEN Tokyo Army Hospital Tokyo, Japan...
...Allied-German lines swayed and writhed across France, the same towns came again & again into the news as they changed hands-Arras, Amiens, Cambrai, Soissons. Korea was producing another crop of such towns, won and lost in a matter of weeks or days instead of years. Pohang, Angang, Yong-chon, Hyonpung and Changnyong had changed hands at least three times. And such towns as Taegu, the northwestern "turntable," and Masan, the south coast anchor, were in the news day after day, because they were under almost constant threat...
...miles respectively southwest of Inchon, Seoul's port. Presumably the purpose was to establish bases for U.S. air attacks on the enemy's coastwise shipping, and for a possible future seaborne attack on the mainland. On the southern coast, the South Koreans captured the town of Tong-yong, 25 miles southwest of Masan, across a narrow strait from Koje Island...
Korean Marshal Ch'oe Yong Gun, 44, chief of staff of the North Korean army. In 1922, at 16, he was ringleader of a school strike. He went to China in 1925, studied at the Whampoa Military Academy, then went to Russia in 1931. He served in the famed Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army...