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...Communists' will-to-win, personified in crafty Ho Chi Minh, had always been there. It was evident last week in the courage and coolness of Communist soldiers who turned their machine guns on power-diving Cobra planes strafing their hilltop position. By holding their fire until the Cobras were at the bottom of their dives, the Communists caused six to be grounded for repairs...
...communications unit stationed on what it supposed was an unassailable hilltop was amazed to see Chinese climbing up over steep, rocky crags. The Americans started firing at 20 yards. "Some we nailed," said a corporal, "and they'd take two or three others down with them, a drop of 75 feet. But they kept coming. If our machine-gunners hadn't cut them off from below, we might have run out of ammo. It looked like curtains...
...north wind followed the retreating G.I.s and seared the faces of rearguards firing from the back slopes of paddyfield dikes. The Chinese sought and found the junction between two U.N. outfits-one British, one American-and broke through. When the British on a neighboring hilltop opened fire, the Chinese swarmed up the hill and forced the British off. Twelve British tanks were ambushed and abandoned...
Accompanying a KMAG officer who was trying to restore some cohesion, Bell found South Korean stragglers who claimed they were "messengers" but had no messages; South Korean officers who could not find their division commander; and, finally, the division commander, who was on a hilltop watching Allied airplanes strafe the enemy, instead of trying to regroup his men. The South Korean driver of a regimental radio jeep had his set tuned to a recording of Crooner Frank Sinatra (broadcast by the U.S. armed forces network) because, he explained, there could be no messages, because his regiment had disappeared...
...next order Davis and Wright received from their captain was to come back down from the hilltop foxhole. It was a steep hill. Earlier, 30 men had taken seven hours to get two wounded G.I.s down to the road. Bob Davis and Jimmy Wright made it in 45 minutes...