Word: 38th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians Again. The Japs organized this country thoroughly: the south was the rice bowl, the north was the workshop (see map). Together the two parts formed a working economic entity; separated they are simply out of gear. The split along the 38th parallel is Korea's biggest, most galling problem. The border isn't closed, but no shipments are coming over...
Quickie strikes abound, and an Army officer recently complained that the holidaying Koreans had thought up a Fifth Freedom - freedom from work. Absentee ism can easily be overcome, but raw materials must come from the north (again, the 38th parallel...
...zone in Korea ran up to the 38th parallel. From the Russian zone north of there came reports that Soviet influence was being consolidated by Communists, picked from the thousands of Koreans who had fought in the Red Army. Moscow described the Communists as busily organizing meetings, electing town councils...
...Lull. When the Japanese made a move to throw in the towel, U.S. land forces were engaged in no major operations. In northeast Luzon, the 38th ("Cyclone") Division was raising the dust with its mop-up of trapped Japs, taking casualties as' well as inflicting them. In the Marianas, three companies of marines waged miniature amphibious war, seized five islets north of Saipan, lost...
...MacArthur's invaluable Team No. 2 in the Philippine campaign. Built up quietly in New Guinea by big, jovial Ike Eichelberger with a staff which started training in Ben Lear's old Second Army, the Eighth went into action as an identified army late in January. The 38th Division and elements of the 24th piled ashore north of Bataan, went on to take Subic Bay and Olongapo. Two days after the first landing the 11th Airborne piled out of boats at Nasugbu and drove to the southern outskirts of Manila in 104 hours. The 511th Regimental Combat Team...