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Back in Washington last week after shepherding one load of 300 pints of blood to Korea, sandy-haired Navy Commander Mary Sproul, onetime head of the armed forces' blood laboratory at Fairfield Calif., gave reporters a description of how fast blood can flow across the Pacific. Commander Sproul's consignment, like all the blood used by the services, was collected by the Red Cross from donors all over the nation and shipped to Travis Air Force Base at Fairfield by air, rail and refrigerated truck. Tested and packed in 20 ice-filled plywood boxes, it was piled less...
...Panic. While the infantrymen in the line drew back slowly before the Chinese assault, the evacuation at the dockside went on apace. There was no panic, no disorder. But the tempo of the operation stepped up sharply. At the docks themselves, U.S., Norwegian and Japanese merchant ships took on load after load of trucks, tanks, gasoline, rations, dismantled aircraft, jeeps, tents and kitchen stoves. The black, mud-choked roads within the dock area were jammed bumper to bumper with mud-spattered supply trains grinding and slithering down to the ships. The supply convoys passed acres of gasoline drums, quarter-mile...
Free Boat Ride. In the harbor meanwhile, the loading booms creaked and strained from dock to deck, and LCVPs (Landing Craft-"Vehicle, Personnel) churned busily from the beach out to an armada of U.S. Navy ships waiting to take out the troops. The South Korean navy sent one LST in to the beach to pick up several thousand R.O.K. troops, nurses and South Korean civilians. The Koreans wasted no time getting aboard. When they finally stopped getting aboard, the LST was crammed to the gunwales with over 4,000 passengers, including a fair share of the remaining civilian population...
Fadden works a seven-day week during the football season and, since his ministrations are not limited to athletes, his load does not lighten significantly once the season ends: soon the ski injuries will start piling...
Thus administered, the draft threw the load onto the reserves and National Guard, predominantly veterans, who had to go when their country called. The reserves couldn't fall back on the mollycoddle collection of exemptions that a softheaded Congress had written into the draft law, and that softhearted draft boards had been ready to apply...