"It has been the bitterest fighting and the most gallant fighting I have ever seen," said Colonel James Adams of Monterey, Calif. "We've tried every approach to that mountain, we've crawled up every finger of the ridge. That's rightcrawled. You can't climb up it. It's like a razor. There haven't been any prisoners taken by either side on top of that mountain."
Colonel Adams commands the U.S. 2nd Division's 23rd Regiment, which was finally identified last week, by permission of Eighth Army censors, as the outfit spearheading the fight for Heartbreak Ridge. This strategic,...
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