Seventh Infantry Division - Yearbook (South Korea)

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Cpl. Morris catches up on some sleep as Pfc. Igelsky and Pfc. Sanders relax. A self-propelled 155-m Long Tom . Thirty yards from the roadblock a grenade exploded, ripping the Colonel with fragments. He fell, mortally wounded, but continued to direct the attack until the roadblock was overrun. Several men carried Faith back and put him in the cab of one of the trucks where medics realized he was fatally injured. The task force now began to crumble into individuals and groups of twenty or thirty men. Faith's oilicers had been wounded or killed and the battered remnants of the battalion lacked leadership for the most part. Major Jones with the help of several others took charge of the largest group remaining and they settled back to help bring through the trucks carrying the wounded. Shell fire was getting heavy by now and the road was blasted. Several trucks were blow to bits. Others careened off the road in flames or were knocked out, blocking the remaining trucks in the column. Most of them were riding on wheel rims, the tires blown off or flat. At

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A commander of the Ethiopian unit briefs his men before they depart on a patrol in Korea. 1700, 1 December, the group of officers decided to Wait Where they were. Word of their extremely precarious position, they argued, must certainly have reached Hagaru-ri by now. Aid was undoubtedly on the Way. They waited an hour until dark and then small arms fire and mortar shelling forced the column to move on. As they reached a small lumber village, the retreat turned into a jumbled, terrifying nightmare of disaster. An enemy machine gun raked the column pointblank. Bullets splattered the Windshields of the first three trucks and the drivers were killed instantly. On the tailgate of the third, Lieutenant Campbell swung into action. He scrambled off the truck and leaped into a ditch with his carbine. Staggering over a body with an arm torn off he fell against the embankment and opened fire at the flashes from the machine gun. Nearby a truck lay overturned, its Wheels turned toward the sky. It Was a scene of wild disorder and it was to get Worse. Troops land at beach during amphibious maneuvers near Hokkaido , Japan. A The observation post atop a hill belonging to the 36th Regiment, 10th ROK Infantry Division.