When a mass of Chinese soldiers burst out of a concealing curtain of brush and charged Company E, 19th U.S. Infantry Regiment, last Nov. 5, there seemed, in the first split second, nothing that any man could do to stop them. The men of the 19th were caught by surprise in scattered holes and ditches along a ridge near Chonghyon. The Chinese started their dash only 100 ft. from the 19th's most forward outpost.
But the man in the hole up front was Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud, a big, impassive, 26-year-old Indian from Friendship, Wis. and Red Cloud did not...
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