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...week's end more than 27,000 of about 34,000 North Koreans had joined in the breakout. U.S. helicopters and spotter planes watched them on the roads, in the villages; U.S. M.P.s recognized a few of them-lean, young, alert, with shorter haircuts than other Koreans-in the back alleys of Pusan. But most were hidden, methodically quartered among the townspeople. Only a handful were recaptured, most of them voluntarily, apparently swayed by U.N. leaflets and broadcasts declaring that they had "made a mistake...
...numbers . . . There is no given number of ships-no specific number of divisions-no special number of billions of dollars-that will automatically guarantee our security . . . Today three aircraft with modern weapons can practically duplicate the destructive power of all the 2,700 planes we unleashed in the great breakout attack from the Normandy beachhead . . . I [speak] to you . . . not only as your President but as one whose life has been devoted to the military defense of our country...
...prepare for the eventual Allied invasion of Europe. By 1944, says World War II Historian Chester Wilmot (The Struggle for Europe), von Rundstedt had lost the master's touch, and was having to drink himself to sleep at night. After the Allied landing in Normandy and the subsequent breakout, Field Marshal Keitel, Oberkommando chief in Berlin, got von Rundstedt on the telephone and wailed, "What shall we do?" Von Rundstedt snapped, "Make peace, you fools!" Keitel ran to Hitler with the remark, and the Führer wrote von Rundstedt a "nice letter," saying that Field Marshal...
...Regiment of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division was pressed inside a tiny perimeter on the Korean front by steady Communist attacks. The Reds pierced the lines and cut off the command post and the regiment's medical station. While the colonel organized his headquarters troops for a breakout, Chaplain Emil J. Kapaun kept up the spirits of the wounded and helped prevent panic among those left to fight. At dusk the survivors fought their way back to the U.N. lines. Kapaun stayed behind, doctoring the wounded who could not be moved, and praying with them. He has not been...
...days before the Allied breakout from Normandy in World War II, a Vichy government train was chugging through central France. Its freight: ten billion French francs (then worth $200 million) for the Bank of France in Limoges. At a tank stop the train was boarded by a gang of armed Maquis, who threw the moneybags into waiting trucks and disappeared into the night. When the Allies reached Limoges a few weeks later, they were feted by a bunch of exceptionally free-spending French partisans. Most freehanded of all was lusty, red-faced Colonel Georges Guingouin...