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...mightily from a pipsqueak, penny-pinched outfit (five doctors for 20,000 men in 1775) into a veritable army of healers: 10,200 officers (doctors, dentists and nurses), some 25,000 enlisted Medical Corpsmen. But the nature of war and the hapless plight of the wounded, the agony of torn flesh and the superhuman burdens on the "medics" had not changed. From the Korean war zone, LIFE Staff Photographer Carl Mydans cabled...
...Cassino slopes, Gühler's outfit is torn to shreds by U.S. artillery. Prodded by Gühler, the few remaining men surrender. At this point Beyond Defeat picks up in excitement, for now there begins a new war, subterranean and ferocious, between those German prisoners still loyal to the Fuhrer and those who would cast off the Nazi curse...
...Tokyo, a statue of the late Field Marshal Masatake Terauchi, Japanese Prime Minister in World War I, was torn down to make way for three naked women in bronze symbolizing Love, Intelligence and Will Power...
Most Americans used to assume rather smugly that in the Philippines, where U.S. power, U.S. wealth and U.S. good will had been working for years, things are different. Recently they have discovered that the difference is not so big as they thought. The Philippines are torn by the chronic rebellion of the Communist-led Huks. The majority of the Philippine people have only the vaguest idea of what Communism is. The fact is that the West has failed to bring millions of Filipinos an order under which they can lead reasonably secure lives. LIFE Editor John Osborne has been touring...
...Comrades. Buried in the Stalinist verbiage was an anecdote that non-Marxists could understand. Wrote Stalin: "We had for some time Marxists who asserted that the railways which remained in our country after the October Revolution were bourgeois railways . . . not worthy of us Marxists; that these railways should be torn up and new ones built-proletarian railways. This earned for the critics the name of Troglodytes. Such a primitive, anarchic view of society [as of] language. . . has nothing to do with Marxism . . . but undoubtedly exists in the minds of some of our muddled comrades...