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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Going farther along the road toward the causeway I found a desperately wounded North Korean. "Salyo chu sio [Help me!]," he croaked, waving his hands at his conquerors. Almost all his clothing had been blown off except for a pair of new Russian boots. I watched him grow weaker while he gestured. A minute later he fell back into the dust-dead...
...When daylight of March 6 came, the ocean was empty except for six straggling LCMs, three of them going in our direction and three going in the opposite direction. [The] Army boat group commander had no idea where Beach Red was. [Staff officers] and I got out maps and by inspection determined that what we were looking at toward our right was, in fact, Willaumez Peninsula. By checking the silhouette of the peaks we were also able to determine the approximate location of Beach...
July: Nothing special happened, except our house burned down...
Battered, canny little Willie Pep, one of the shiftiest boxers in ring history and featherweight champion (except for three months) through the past eight years, figured that at the advanced fighting age of 28 he had learned all the tricks of his trade. A fast man on his feet and a fairly sharp puncher, he could also wrestle, gouge and butt with the best of them. Last week, nonetheless, Harlem's 24-year-old Sandy Saddler taught Willie a few new holds...
Sentimentalists often mourn for captive eagles, prevented by cruel man from soaring into the sky. But eagles, says Dr. Hediger, do not really like to fly long distances, and never do so except when forced by hunger. If grounded in a cage and fed regularly, they live to a ripe old age, producing regular crops of eaglets...