Daily Times-Gazette, 5 Feb 1951, p. 14

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PAGE FOURTEEN THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE . Warfare In Korea As Viewed Through The h Gets All The Attention Little Hope Ahead, But No Trip Back Wher the Siopx, en route home from Korean duty, stopped at Honolulu, Hawaiian dancing girls gave the Canadian destroyer's crew an island welcome complete with leis and dances, This dancer, to the envy of the crew, pays attention to the ship's mascot. Left to right (foreground): There's little hope ahead and there's no turning back for these pitiful refugees fleeing southward away from the A. B. Tony Shursky, Vancouver; A.'B, Gill O'Malley, Victoria, and A.B. Korean battle ground, U.N. soldiers report that many dead or dying are left by the roadside as the slowly Suggest U. N. Armies May Advance To Seoul MONDAY, Camera's | A dominant Korean hill is taken by members of a U.N. infantry division in a foray to search out Communis$ | North Battleford, Sask. picid A A Peter Litwin, Nort Central Press Canadian. | 0, 000 positions. In this typical hilly terrain, possession of a ridge gives troops and guns a natural advantage. | Below, infantrymen grab a ride on tanks rolling along a wintry Korer - road. In the current fighting, mobility p U. moving columns of humanity trudge onward. --Central Press Canadian. is required to keep contact with the wily Red enemy, and even a slow tank helps speed the foot soldier on this task. The U.N. high command has intimated that Seoul may be retaken, as strong Communis$ resistance has vanished. General Mud Combination Infantrymen, Mountain Goats and Dogs > ~Canada Wide Picture, Canadians Bury First Casualty In Korea * Soldiers of every war have vivid | memories of mud, cold and dust, and United Nations troops in Korea are learning all about them. And | when spring comes the goo that | now reaches only to ankles. will Lieut. Jacob Kratt, Jr, 25, South | Milwaukee, Wis, shot down a | 'ommaunist jet fighter over Pyong- | vang, his third aerial victory in | four days. This makes him, for -- we : wi the moment, the top LS pint 2 Bareheaded Capt. Jim Valley (right), Royal Canadian Army Padre from Montreal, leads a procession of warram atre. Kratt, a- | 2 . become morass that will stall tanks | yoo 21g for other purposes. These three infantrymen, joined in harness-style, bend into the long, hard he Orean | childsen, Saw en | officers carrying the body of Regimental Sergeant Major James Wood, first Canadian casualty in Korea, 1 and men alike. | pull while a third soldier commands the rear of the loaded sled. The team is being spurred on by the N.C.0.|gver Germany in World War IL | burial place. R.S.M. Wood was killed in a training accident, r- --Central Press Canadian. | to the right, background. --Central Press Canadian. | --~Central Press Canadian. : YY Greater Firepower Gives U.N. Forces Advantage i Military Honors In Battle Area * wv § " i ¥ ' 1 i | FY : : . - For the first time in the Korean war soldiers are using sleighs to transport their supplies up to the front | lines over the frozen mountainous terrain, The sleds are new and are designed not only for cargo but for use | A ha A Se Canada Wide Pict ee Roadblock Fighting Red Chinese and North Koreans is only half of the Korean story. Winter is as bitter an rnemy of U.N. forces as the Communists are. Soldiers had to fight with shovels to move a roadblock caused by ice and snow in this mountain pass before they could get their trucks throughs ini s------ Honor Amputee "i - 'Covering fire is provided by machine-gunner and two riflemen of a G.H.Q. raider company for units of a special | Lance-Cpl. Dennis Houlders of Birmingham, England (foreground) and C.8.M. Arthur Faules, also of Birming- attack Brot i a strike against a nest of 1,500 Korean Reds. Great mobility now marks the tactics | ham, salute the jeep carrying General Lawton Collins, U.S. army chief of staff, from the 29th British Brigade of the United Nations forces, whose superior equipment is credited with immobilizing the Communist forces. |comman. post. This photo was made during General Collins' inspection tour of the Korean war zone. ' : ----Central Press Canadian. --Central Press Canadian. The Harder They Stick Korean Cold Hits The Feet Floating Down Patricias Draw A Gallery Although battle noises are familiar sounds te South Koreans, many of them gather around to watch Canadians as they fire various weapons in preparatory training for war. Here a group of them observe the "Patri- cia's" firing their big 60 and 81 mm, mortars. ~~Central Press Canadian. Unhappy About U. N. Decision' PY II | Mrs. Alben Barkley, wife of the vice president, stands behind the wheelchair of 25-year-old Pte. An- = | dL | U.S. army sergeant Albert J. Van- | dervort makes one jump in which he needs no help from his para- chute as he arrives in Japan from Korea. He accidentally: fell from a far east air force combat cargo plane while dropping supplies over the fighting front. He was saved by his parachute but he had some difficulty convincing ground forces who he really was during the two | days he spend hiich-hiking oui of | the battle area. ~-Canada Wide Picture. Little drops of water and li." grains of dust become an ocean of mud, | powerful enough to hold this huge U.S. tank helpless. Soldiers worked for | four days to free the juggernaut from its gooey trap on the central | Korean front. It was finally stripped and abandoned. | --Central Press Canadian. | - I IEE Ds LG a f= $9 ; ao | A South Korean soldier of the R.O.K. army, who acted as guide for His efforts to stop the U.S. motion to brand China as an aggressor | Canadian troops guerrilla hunting, is shown being examined for frozen defeated, Sir Benegal Rau, Indian 'delegate to the United Nations, looks | feet by Lieut. D. G. MacLeod of Vancouver. The Canadians and their disconsolate as he (hats with Indonesia's Lambertys Pajr, iéfi, and | guides spent four nights sleeping on the rocky mountain slopes or in Egypt's Fawzi Bey. India voted against the U.S. .motion; Egypt and | haystacks during bitter cold to track down a guerrilla hideout. Many Indonesia abstained, --Central Press Canadian, | Suffered irom chilled feet, but none seriously. --Central 'Press Canadian, | thony J. Troilo of Norristown, Pa., a Korean amputee, at an amateur | hour benefit sponsored by the Women's National Press Club in Washington, Troilo, "the most im- portant man in the United States," received a 10-minute ovation from President Truman, the first .lady, the cabinet and a capacity audi- ence. He had to walk barefoot for 10 days in Korea's bitter cold when he wag captured. Amputation » {his feet was necessary when 'forces rescued him, '

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