Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1951 — Page 28
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By H. D. QUIGG United Pr 08! ag Correspondent SOMEWHERE IN. KOREA, Mar. 8—Anybody who is writing
a book about the Korean War and doesn't name it “Danger For- | ward” is missing a good bet. Of all the coded road signs along the winding, desolate earthways of Korea, Danger Forward is the most magnificent, the most stirring in its phraseology and implication and actual meahing, and certainly one of the oldest.; "TT TTT The Communists know it well. |imperative names of Impel and “Danger” is the code name of | Intrude. There are Gravy Train, an outfit which, to speak mildly, |Coffee, a savage fighting unit has been associated with the Ko- named North Star, and an outfit rean War for some time. The! [named Nitrate and one called “forward” part of the sign means |Jade. the “up front” section of the unit,! You can't forget units named As in all wars, these code signs, Constant Troublemaker, Panty-| which point the way toward the waist, Devastate, and Horsefly locations of various units, are There's one outfit whose nickname nailed to trees along all the high-|is Nickname. And, ie
ways which have borne the traf- there's a Natalie Charlle, fie of battle. | When the final roll is called on |
{Korea the names of generals and | | : Clustered on Posts ; " _ geographical features will be | TREE 14] The names, with arrows point there, But I'll remember Lightning | a ENN. RY
ing, are clustered on posts on j \ , . Forward-—and drink a toast to SO FRESH X N : ; po i j 2118 SHELBY St.
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the sheer number of these signs the Marion County crops judging at some corners, champions ‘following the recent NO. 3151 _E. NEW YORK They blaze the tral] of the main contest conducted at the Purdue 200 2740 MADISON AVE, supply routes. They mark the Marott Agriculture Center. cA 2418 W, (8TH 8ST. stream of traffic on advances, They. are James Smith, James NS i : :
and retreats up and down Korea. Guilfoil, Dale Ditzenberger and In a section which has been so William Hayden. much fought over as that part of | Decatiir Central placed second. Korea from Seoul to Taegu, many Both teams will represent the of the signs have remained post- county in the district contest at ed long after these outfits have Greenfield Mar. 21. moved elsewhere. You're likely to| rere ree find “Danger Forward” - staring BU ENOS AIRES THIRD you in the face in some section! The third largest city in the which long since has ceased to! Western Hemisphere is Buenos be a combat area. |Alres. It ranks behind New York | Slept and Died Here and Chicago and just ahead of
Sometimes you find the old Philadelphia, signs still posted along roads which have been United Nations property three times and Commu- | nist property two times, as t battle pendulum swung back en forth along its north-south path. And in this sense, these signs form a sort of immediate history of. the fighting. As you jeep along, it's as if the weathered and outdated signs are saying “My. outfit .fought and slept and died here once ahd took part in the push that won this sector.”
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