Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, the assault force was ordered to withdraw. Men too exhausted to cry crawled back down the ridge with no name. For all their terrible sacrifice the ridge was still in enemy hands...
...Padre Was Brave. The ridge did not stay quiet for long. As Craig prepared to order the second assault wave into the valley, U.S. artillery opened up on the Red positions once more. Then the Corsairs came roaring out of the sky again, their gull-like wings almost scraping the tops of the shabby shrubbery on No Name Ridge. Rockets burst all over the ridge with searing, orange explosions; the Corsairs' machine guns stitched line after line of death up, down and across the ridge...
Last Out of the Valley. Finally, at Craig's command, the second wave of the Marine assault force moved up the road toward the jump-off point. They moved in single file, on both sides of the road, for down the center came more wounded. They came in jeeps, four to a jeep, at 3 m.p.h. Medics riding with them did the best they could to make their wounds less painful. One downy-faced corpsman stroked an old, hard-faced sergeant's head above his ripped face and kept saying, "You'll be fine, Sarge...
...good to report that the second assault wave carried the ridge with no name and that the Marines continued to advance, taking their objectives as they went. But it will never be good to remember those kids being carried out of that valley...
...defend a position that is also based on inconsistency. The U.S. Government, though it is pledged to the defense of Formosa, is still unwilling to work in anything like partnership with the Nationalist government on Formosa, and never misses a chance to make the point clear, even though an assault by the Reds would make partnership an absolute necessity. Furthermore, the State Department tacitly encouraged Whitehall's recognition of Red China last January...