Word: anvils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forces moved quickly to cut the escape routes. On the day that U.N. troops first entered the North Korean capital, Douglas MacArthur had called five newsmen to his Tokyo office, explained that he was about to launch another hammer & anvil maneuver. The next morning, on the sixth anniversary of his World War II landing at Leyte, MacArthur took off for Korea in his new Constellation, the SCAP...
...Manchurian and Siberian borders. U.N. air power harassed and hampered these lines. They could be cut at a critical point by a U.N. landing above or below the mudflats on the west coast opposite Pyongyang. Once MacArthur's men were ashore again, the U.N. would have another anvil on which the hammer of troops advancing from the south could crush the enemy's last organized forces and thus pound out the final victory...
Between the U.N. anvil at Seoul and the U.N. hammer at Pusan the bulk of the enemy's strength would be pounded. "By employing [our] two great advantages," predicted MacArthur, "we are going to wrest the ground initiative from him . . . If that can be accomplished, these [Communist] forces will sooner or later disintegrate...
Instead of "triggering a rainstorm," the objective is to turn the small water droplets . . . into fine snowflakes, so that the cloud will fuzz out and drift away instead of growing into a towering cumulus with an anvil top and lots of lightning...
...athletic prowess was the talk of the countryside. Seizing a 100-lb. blacksmith anvil with one hand, he would lift it straight out and up, and then with both hands toss it over his shoulder. At 44, and holding a brick in each hand, so the story goes, he completed three consecutive standing broad jumps totaling 36 feet. (U.S. standing broad-jump record, without bricks: 11 ft. 4⅞ in.) At 50, he could stand in an empty barrel and jump out without touching...