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With last week's landing of U.S. reinforcements, the odds in Korea, while still heavily against the U.S., were beginning to even up. The U.S. now has part of five infantry divisions in Korea (24th, 25th, 2nd, 1st Cavalry, 1st Marine). With several independent combat units, U.S. strength added up to about 60,000 men. Most of them are still inadequately equipped but more and more materiel is flowing in daily. There are still virtually no reserves to provide rest periods for the men at the front. Fighting with the U.S., are perhaps 50,000 ill-equipped South Koreans...
...Communists kept on rolling. Some times they were stopped, temporarily; more often they advanced. At midweek, tank-led Red columns drove through Chinju and on toward Masan, only 30 miles from the main U.S. supply port of Pusan. West of Masan the grim and battered G.I.s of the U.S. 24th Division threw themselves into the line once more, and the Red advance ground to a halt. Lieut. General Walton H. Walker hastily moved the 25th Infantry Division to the southern front to shore up the 24th. This week the 24th had moved north, was facing another Red assault...
What Makes a Marine. In postwar Japan, Craig spent several months teaching amphibious tactics to Douglas MacArthur's 1st Cavalry and 24th Infantry Divisions, now in Korea. From April 1949 to his departure for Korea, Craig was the 1st's assistant division commander at Camp Pendleton, Calif., in charge of training under bull-roaring Graves B. ("The Big E") Erskine, a stickler for perfection who "turned over" (i.e., relieved) 15 colonels in one year.* To marines, the fact that Craig survived under Erskine is the proof that he is good...
Last week 40-year-old Correspondent Moore left the 24th Division command post between Masan and Chinju and headed for the front in a jeep. He never got there. Next day, the Americans withdrew from the area. At week's end, Bill Moore was still missing, the ninth newsman killed or missing while covering the Korean...
...Reds took Namwon, Kwangju and Mokpo-then, wheeling east, Posong, Sunchon, Yosu, Hadong, Ponggye. Elements of the Americans' tired and battered 24th Infantry Division, which needed a rest, and of the ist Cavalry Division, which could ill be spared from the central front, were wheeled 60 miles south to meet the threat. After the fall of Chinju, the next likely enemy objective was Masan-27 miles from Pusan...