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...becoming a legend of the Corps. He served with the "Horse Marines" at Peking, with the famed 4th Marines at Shanghai in the days of the Japanese occupation of China's metropolis. In World War II, he commanded a battalion and then a regiment of the ist Marine Division, fought from Guadal canal* to Peleliu, won two more Navy Crosses, was wounded seven times...
Last week, after nine months in Korea, weather-beaten Chesty Puller, 52, assistant commander of the ist Division, veteran of the Inchon landing and the Marines' heroic retreat from the Changjin Reservoir, was back in the U.S. to take over a training command...
...breakneck speed. After graduation, when his father took a fling at making autos, Fred helped him turn out a few of his four-and six-cylinder Republics before they gave it up. But it taught Fred about engines, and when, at 30, he was commissioned a ist lieutenant in World War I, the Army made him an aircraft-engine inspector. He was sent to New Brunswick, N.J., where Wright-Martin was making the famed Hispano-Suiza engine under French license. There Rentschler was converted to aviation. At war's end, he told brother George: "Come hell or high water...
Doffing their parkas in the warm midday sun, marines moved carefully toward the town. On the west, the tanks of the ist Cavalry Division kept pace with and sometimes outsped the leathernecks. The cavalrymen flanked Hongchon on the west, and the marines hauled up for the night a short distance south. The town was quiet...
Twenty to 30 rounds of high-velocity shells whistled over the ford, toward the marines advancing from the south and the ist Cavalry's tankers. A chow line around the ist Cavalry armor abruptly disappeared as the men climbed in and buttoned up. In the marine area the cry for a medical corpsman was heard, and dirt began to fly from entrenching tools...