BATTLE OF KOREA: Twilight War

After touring the Eighth Army's 145-mile front last week, TIME Correspondent Bud Hutton cabled:

HOW do these men feel about the war? A grimy, bearded infantryman spoke for thousands when he said to me: "I guess it all depends on how you look at it. The days it's my turn to go out on patrol and some jerk over there cuts down at me with a burp gun or whatever—why, then it's a hell of a big war for me that day. And the days I get to just lay around the bunker—with maybe only ten or 15 rounds incoming all...

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