Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first U.S. amphibious invasion force of the Korean war went ashore last week at the east coast port of Pohang, moved out swiftly to reinforce U.S. positions south of Taejon and (more importantly) to anchor the right flank of the U.S.-South Korean line. The men who landed at Pohang were members of the famed 1st Cavalry Division, the third U.S. division to be sent into battle in Korea. They were commanded by Major General Hobart R. Gay, a veteran armored force officer who served as chief of staff to General George S. Pattern's Third Army in World...
...Cavalry Division's voyage to war began with all the festivity of a luxury liner's departure for a 30-day pleasure cruise of the Mediterranean. When the convoy weighed anchor in Japan, wives & children waved goodbye from the shore and a brass band cheerily blared Anchors' Aweigh. On the fantail of the fleet's flagship, an impromptu clay pigeon shoot was organized...
Three days after the fleet left Japan, it dropped anchor off Pohang, a dusty, smelly little town with a mirror-calm harbor. Not a shot was fired. Most of the green-clad G.I. invaders came ashore without even getting their feet...
...MacArthur's reputation as a strategist, his pleas-considered political, and hence beyond his province-were largely ignored. In 1948 the Defense Department had answered with a flat "no" the general's request for more troops to buttress Japan, which MacArthur regarded as the only firm anchor of the U.S. position in Asia. Last January the State Department had overruled MacArthur's urgent proposal that Formosa be defended. He had warned Washington that Communist capture of Formosa would break the defense line Japan-Okinawa-Formosa-Philippines and drive the U.S. back to the line Alaska-Hawaii...
...piled up a six-yard lead by the halfway mark. Fifty seconds later, with the 35,000 track fans in Philadelphia's Franklin Field in an uproar, New York University had cut the lead to a stride. For N.Y.U. that left matters up to Anchor Man Reggie Pearman, who had never been beaten in three years of running in the Penn Relays. He jetted off after Morgan State's anchor man, tall, long-legged Jamaican George Rhoden, 400-meter champion of the A.A.U. But Pearman was never able to close that stride, and little Morgan State (enrollment...