Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reds smashed back with 80 of their big tanks. The U.S. tank crews found out what it means to be outnumbered, outweighed and outgunned (their 75-mm. cannon were no match for the Reds' 85s). All but two of the U.S. tanks were put out of action. Red armor and infantry tore up the U.S. infantry...
...North Koreans suffered heavy losses in men and armor, but they pushed on doggedly. The invaders widened the Samgyo beachhead to take Nonsan (see , about 15 miles to the south, then swung northwest to attack Taejon. The town and its airfield, from which U.S. fighter craft and hospital planes had operated, were under Communist artillery fire; the airfield was evacuated...
...were spilling the blood of attackers who kept coming on in waves. The Reds had surprised everyone with their fighting ability and determination, but on closer acquaintance they had shown certain weaknesses, such as attacking in vulnerable masses. They also had a tendency to barrel straight ahead with their armor, using it as a sledge hammer instead of as a meat chopper. This kind of tactics permitted U.S. withdrawals when things got too hot; it also meant that the Reds were not causing as much destruction as the Germans did in the blitzkrieg phase of World War II. North Korean...
...when Pentagon spokesmen in Washington described the Korean situation as "not serious," the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart, who was in the field, described it as not only serious but "desperate." On good flying days, U.S. and Australian fighter planes harried the enemy armor and communications, but in the rainy monsoon season, good flying days are too few. In spite of continued B-29 bombing north of the 38th parallel and effective raids on the Han River crossings, the enemy seemed to be keeping his supply lines in fair order. And MacArthur's communiques constantly mentioned...
Major General Doyle O. Mickey, 59, deputy chief of staff of the Far East Command, is handling hour-to-hour operations of MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo. Doyle Hickey has to cope with an enemy whose greatest combat advantage lies in superior armor-an ironic twist for the general who during World War II had fought with and eventually commanded the famed 3rd Armored Division, spearhead of the First U.S. Army from St. Lò to the Elbe...