On a moonless night last week off Korea's northeastern coast, a party of British commandos and U.S. marines put out in small boats from the fast transport Horace A, Bass. The Americans were serving with the 41st Royal Marine commandos, commanded by Lieut. Colonel Ferris Grant, a Londoner. The raiders' objective: the Communist east-coast rail line along which vital supplies were flowing from Vladivostok to Wonsan.
Near Tanchon, about 170 miles north of the 38th parallel, the party made shore under a covering barrage from the Bass and the U.S. destroyer Tingey....
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