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...served with the prewar 18th Pursuit Group in Hawaii in 1937 and as an instructor at the Air Corps Technical School; commanded a bomb group in the South Pacific in World War II, later became a staff officer in the Pentagon; after the war, became commander of the Yukon sector, Alaskan Air Command, was back on staff duty with the Atomic Energy Commission when he was sent off to Japan and the prospect of another star...
...Chinese advanced through U.S. minefields as if the mines were not there. On one sector, said a U.S. colonel, Red soldiers, blowing themselves up so that others might follow, "set off mines so. fast that it sounded like artillery." Dead and dying Chinese festooned the U.S. wire. Watching the Chinese advance to agony and death, marveling G.I.s told each other that they must be doped. (But among many hundreds of prisoners, U.S. medical officers have not yet found a single enemy soldier who was under drugs...
Like a Rock. The Chinese launched their heaviest blow at the Inje sector (see map), in difficult mountainous terrain where the front was held by ROK units. Hitting the ROKs has become a standard Chinese tactic, and was not unexpected by the allied command; but General Van Fleet did not have enough troops to back up the South Koreans in the west-central sector. He had done the next best thing: he posted a dependable, battle-seasoned U.S. division-the 2nd Infantry-on the South Koreans' left, and he had armored reserves ready to rush forward in case...
They met at a time when the nation was unhappily engaged in what Douglas MacArthur called "a war of large magnitude [in] a contracted sector," a war it did not seem able to win except at its foe's pleasure. It was restive and resentful under an unaccustomed restraint-a fear that using its full strength might bring a larger war in which there would be no victor...
...Vienna: his jailers had told him that she was under arrest, too. He knew nothing of what had happened in the outside world since November 1949. "You mean there's real fighting?" he asked when told of Korea. At his house in Vienna's U.S. sector, Vogeler leaped from the car, embraced his pretty blonde wife and two sons, 11 and 9. Exclaimed one of the boys: "Gosh-at last!" Vogeler wept...