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...Reds smashed back with 80 of their big tanks. The U.S. tank crews found out what it means to be outnumbered, outweighed and outgunned (their 75-mm. cannon were no match for the Reds' 85s). All but two of the U.S. tanks were put out of action. Red armor and infantry tore up the U.S. infantry...
...when Pentagon spokesmen in Washington described the Korean situation as "not serious," the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart, who was in the field, described it as not only serious but "desperate." On good flying days, U.S. and Australian fighter planes harried the enemy armor and communications, but in the rainy monsoon season, good flying days are too few. In spite of continued B-29 bombing north of the 38th parallel and effective raids on the Han River crossings, the enemy seemed to be keeping his supply lines in fair order. And MacArthur's communiques constantly mentioned...
Major General Doyle O. Mickey, 59, deputy chief of staff of the Far East Command, is handling hour-to-hour operations of MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo. Doyle Hickey has to cope with an enemy whose greatest combat advantage lies in superior armor-an ironic twist for the general who during World War II had fought with and eventually commanded the famed 3rd Armored Division, spearhead of the First U.S. Army from St. Lò to the Elbe...
...dreaded tanks across the river on rafts and pontoon bridges. Again the South Koreans, now short of weapons of any sort, wavered and broke, and the Communists pushed on. Meanwhile, U.S. jets and F82 Twin Mustangs were beginning to shoot down Yaks and knock out some of the enemy armor. The Yaks retaliated by destructive sneak attacks on Suwon's airstrip...
...burden of U.S. operations in Korea. FEAF's 400-odd fighters, 60-odd bombers and one troop carrier group were scattered halfway across the Pacific. From bases in southern Japan, Stratemeyer sent out jet F80 Shooting Stars and F82 Twin Mustangs to strafe North Korean trucks, locomotives and armor. From Guam he called up B-29 Superfortresses to pound Seoul's Kimpo airfield...