On the right wing of the allied advance last week, the Turkish brigade in Korea ran into Communist fire from a snub-nosed hill. Looking like warriors of another age, in their greatcoats and sweeping mustaches, the Turks applied their standard solution—they fixed bayonets and charged. The Chinese ran.
"We had to put our bayonets back in the sheath," said a Turkish private scornfully. "It was very irritating." The Turks then gave the Reds a lesson in marksmanship. Said a colonel: "When they did hit one of our men, it was in the arm or leg, always. When Turks shot...
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