Present & Accounted For

Eight weeks after the North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel, General Douglas MacArthur asked U.N. members for reinforcements. At that time, U.N. nations had already promised 33,000 fighting men, later upped the number. But last week there were only some 20,000 men from other United Nations on the ground in Korea, compared to 100,000 R.O.K.s, 140,000 Americans.

These are the U.N. members' contributions to the common fight:

P: Australia--1,000 men, two destroyers, one 75-plane Mustang fighter squadron.

P: Belgium-Luxembourg--750 men, en route.

P: Canada--1,000 men, three destroyers, one air transport squadron.

P: Colombia--one frigate, en route.

P: France--1,000 men, one frigate.

P: Great Britain--6,000 men, two patrol squadrons of Sunderland flying boats, two aircraft carriers with planes, two light cruisers, five destroyers, three frigates, one auxiliary vessel.

P: Greece--800 to 1,000 men, six transport planes.

P: New Zealand--1,100 men, en route, two corvettes.

P: The Netherlands -- 650 men, one destroyer.

P: The Philippines -- 1,200 men.

P: Siam -- 1,200 men, two corvettes.

P: South Africa -- one fighter squadron.

P: Turkey -- 5,200 men.

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