Fire Chief Mike on Way Up Ladder, Made General U. S. EIGHT ARMY HEAD QUARTERS, Korea, Feb. 21 (AP) Fire Chief Mike has moved up to a generals job. He ll either be general or a dead colonel, admiring GIs once said of John (Mike) Michaelis, a famous fighting leader of the Korean war. Today it was announced that colonel Michaelis, leader of the 27th (Wolfhound) regiment has been advanced to assistant commander of the 25th division, succeeding Brig. Gen. Joseph S. Bradley. Miachelis has been nominated for brigadier general. General Bradley is taking over the 25th division, succeeding Brig. Gen. Joseph S. Bradley. Miachelis has been nominated for brigadier general. General Bradley is taking over the 25th division, replacing Maj. Gen. William B. Kean who is to command the U. S. Third corps at Camp Robert, Calif. Rush to Plug Holes The lean, blond, tough Michaelis and his 27th regiment have been the fire brigade of the Korean war rushed in where the fighting was fiercest to plug holes in sagging allied ilnes. Men of the 27th gained fame in the early days of the Pusan perimeter fighting last summer, when they made a galland stand in the bowling alley north of Taegu. Reds were slaughtered trying to bowl down the road. New leader of the Wolfhounds is another fighting man, Lt. Col. Gilbert Check of Williston, N. D. Leads Men In and Out Michaelis, 28, a native of San Francisco whose home is at Lancaster, Pa., moulded his men into the toughest regiment in the Korean war. He led them in to the wars tightest spots, and he led them out again. He inspires legends. Five feet, 11 inches, straight as a rifle barrel, he has kind eyes and a mild manner. But when he is in action, he is all fighting man. He landed in Korea July 7. Three days later he met his regiment at the dock. Stripped for Action I took eight carloads of mandolins and easy chairs away from them, he said. I stripped them for action and it didnt take long for them to get it. On July 20 the Wolfhounds met the North Koreans at Yongdong and stopped them cold. It was the first time an American unit had halted the enemy. It was not the last for the Wolfhounds. A few days ago in Korea his Wolfhounds staged the most deadly bayonet charge of the Korean conflict. Military observers said that charge took a greater toll of lives with knife than any since the Am Revolution.