"flash range" instruments on the Marine front lines. Explaining the instrument is
Marine S/Sgt. Charles Kitching. March 1951. T.Sgt Vance Jobe. (Marine Corps)
Sergeant First Class Nelson V. Brittin, I Company, 3rd Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, became the US Army’s thirty-fifth Korean War Medal of Honor recipient. Leading his squad up a hill under murderous enemy fire, he was wounded while grenading an enemy position. Refusing medical attention, he replenished his supply of grenades and returned to the assault. When his weapon jammed, he leaped into a foxhole and killed the occupants with his bayonet and rifle butt. He continued to wipe out foxholes and knocked out a machinegun nest with grenades and rifle fire. His squad under fire from another machinegun with supporting riflemen, he unhesitatingly charged the position where he was killed instantly by a burst of automatic fire. In his sustained and driving action, he had killed more than twenty of the enemy and destroyed four automatic weapons, inspiring his company to attain its objective.
March 1951
MacArthur declares "There is no substitute for victory". In message to House Republican leader Martin, MacArthur expresses his frustration with the limited war U.S. is fighting against communists.
And today failure to achieve victory through United Nations police action leaves the United States and its allies in the region vulnerable to North Korean missiles--witness the current veiled threat of imminent launch.
Saddam-free in '03. Then make Kim Jong Ill.
In memory of your old man, Kim, please accept this thermonuclear device.