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...Defense Department reported 1,543 more U.S. casualties in Korea, bringing the announced total for eight months of the war to 50,675. In one respect, however, the total figures are deceptively high. The Pentagon estimated last week that 60% of all those listed as wounded in action (and 80% of all noncombat casualties) are eventually returned to active duty. The latest breakdown...
...weeks after he took over, the Pentagon decided to convert the 82nd into one of the first two U.S. airborne divisions. To show his men what paratrooping might be like, Ridgway, who had no particular airborne qualifications, hied himself to Fort Benning to make a parachute jump. "It was the most glorious feeling in the world," he told the dubious infantrymen. "You feel like the lord of creation floating way up above the earth...
...August 1949, after a tour as commander of the Caribbean area, Ridgway was brought back to the Pentagon to become deputy chief of staff for administration. (For a long time, Pentagon insiders have predicted that Ridgway will be Chief of Staff one of these days.) Paratrooper Ridgway pushed hard for building up the "vertical envelopment...
...aides at the Pentagon had no easier job than his officers in Europe. He would pound the desk with rage when someone gave him an evasive answer. Asked what it was like to work for Ridgway, an aide said, "Tense." "Ridgway tense?" "No," said the officer, "we're tense...
...Normandy beachhead, took command when his superior was killed, won battlefield promotion to colonel. He was wounded twice in Holland, but managed to leave the hospital in time for the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, he was aide to Chief of Staff Dwight Eisenhower. On leaving the Pentagon, Ike wrote Mike how proud he had been to "have had as aide a sterling young combat officer...