Seventh Infantry Division - Yearbook (South Korea)

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fi jf! On the firing range. rean conflict ever since it had started. Crump had writ- ten the story, which appropriately enough concerned the action of a typical platoon during a quiet day on the front. This day in the film was the day the cease fire was called and the picture was a tragic, realistic and, at times, humorous account of life along the MLR on the last day of War. The plot was familiar to us. It concerned patrol actions and assaults on hilltops and those harrowing jobs often referred to as routine W -amass-v Radio shop. Surprisingly enough, Crump, Who directed the picture, brought no glamour boys from Hollywood to play the leads. Instead he picked men from the 7th Infantry Division and they played themselves in the picture. True, the names were changed, but each man in the cast was in reality, portraying himself in this War picture. Later, Bosley Crowther, the famous New York Times critic, said of the picture that though the soldiers who do the performing demonstrate no professional acting Outdoor class in the use of small arms.

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,. .i.ni...,- . The Colombian Bn. gets some poiniers. skill, their crude and cryptic behavior is as G. I. as the uniforms they wear or the formidable paraphernalia of rifles and grenades they tote. This was as nice a tribute as a professional motion picture critic could have made. Among those seen in speaking parts in the picture were Captain Roy Thompson, Jr., Corporal Henry Goszkowski, Sergeant Dick Elliott, SFC Al Cook, Private Richard L. Mayes, Cheong Yul Bak, SFC How- ard Strait, Corporal Charlie Owen, PFC Gilbert L. Gisaille. PFC Harry L. Hofelich, Corporal Harold Eng- lish, PFC Ed Pruchniewski, Private Otis Wright and PFC Richard Carrasco. But though the war was only three months from its end, there were still things to do before the cease fire The Mortar. lf's done this way . . . actually was signed and became a reality. On 15 May and 16 May, the 17th Infantry sector at Outpost Snook was attacked by an enemy company and, with reinforce- ments, the units on Snook cracked the attempt and routed the Reds. On 20 May, the Commies once again tried, this time at Outpost Yoke where an Ethiopian force was in occupation, consisting of one officer and fifty-six enlisted men from the lst Platoon of the 3rd Company. In one of the bitterest two-day battles in the entire war, the Ethiopians and Americans crushed the attack and killed fifty Reds, wounding a hundred and thirty and taking two prisoners. It was a weird battle. Chinese battle cries mingled with the battle calls of the Ethiopians. Yells of Tekuse fopen firelj and Beirta Rocket launcher. A