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During the U.S. evacuation of the Hungnam beachhead last year, a key outer defense point was a ridge on the exposed eastern flank. For 30 hours an infantry platoon of the 3rd Division, commanded by ist Lieut. Harry E. Sutton, 30, of The Bronx, beat off enemy attacks, refused to retreat even when part of the U.S. line was overrun. Lieutenant Sutton won the Silver Star for leading a bayonet charge which dug out the enemy and restored the position. Greater honor, perhaps, than the Silver Star was the fact that his fellow soldiers and superior officers referred...
Major General Charles D. Palmer, 49, commander of ist Cavalry Division: West Point, 1924; chief of staff, 2nd Armored Division and VI Corps in Europe, World War II; division artillery officer, 1st Cavalry Division in Japan and Korea...
Nearly all of the old command teams are back in the U.S. for jobs of first importance: applying battle experience gained in Korea to the training of the expanding Army at home. Major General Hobart Gay, onetime commander of the ist Cavalry Division, is deputy commander of the Fourth Army at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Major General John Church, ex-commander of the 24th Division, is the new boss of the Army's famed Infantry School at Fort Benning. Major General David Barr, former commander of the 7th Division, is now commander of the Armored School at Fort Knox...
...Pentagon generals were saying that nothing could be done until somebody else (not they) decided whether the U.S. Army would try to stay in Korea. They were waiting for a clear-cut directive from the White House. It never came. Yet a firm decision was made, largely by the ist Marine Division. When the marines fought their way down to Hungnam through the "unconquerable Chinese hordes," and embarked for Pusan with their equipment, their wounded and their prisoners, the war in Asia took on a different look. The news stories, pictures and newsreels of the Hungnam action contributed more...
...dawn, the G.I.s and French counterattacked. Three times ist Lieut. Richard Kotite's platoon was thrown back from an enemy hill position. Then fighter planes dropped napalm on the Reds. Said Kotite: "We picked them off like ducks...