Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defense Department last week reported 2,537 more U.S. casualties in Korea, reflecting the first losses in the big Chinese Communist assault. The new list, dated Jan. 10, brings the announced cost for six months of the war to 42,713 U.S. dead, wounded and missingalmost twice the total number of ground troops dispatched to the Korean front by all other U.N. allies. The breakdown...
...after the fall of Osan, for what Eighth Army spokesmen said was a huge buildup of strength. Also, they seemed to be shifting strength laterally to the east, either to reinforce the hard-pressed North Koreans in the central mountains, or because they were unwilling to make a frontal assault along the Seoul-Taejon road. Since allied rear-guards had lost contact with the Chinese, they were ordered to turn around, push north until they encountered the enemy...
...second above Taejon (see map). It seemed likely that the Communists would soon make their customary long halt for regrouping and resupply. If they did, the Eighth Army might stop to harass them, make them pay dearly for every mile gained. But if the Chinese continued their powerful assault, the U.N. forces could not attempt a serious holding action anywhere short of the old Pusan perimeter. In Korea and Tokyo last week, there was more & more talk that the U.N. forces would quit Korea altogether, would use Pusan only as a base for safe evacuation...
...Fusiliers, pointed down a small valley toward two smoldering villages. "Some of my troops, including a few wounded, are pinned down there," he said. "I've lost my senior major, a classmate of mine whom I've known for 25 years. I've also lost my assault platoon commander. We're just about to go in and get out the rest." Then the colonel had some cheese & crackers and a mug of tea, swung his carbine over his shoulder and marched off to join his riflemen. The counterattack came off successfully, and a few hours later...
...Maid. In Oklahoma City, Audrey Lee Williams told the assistant county attorney she did not want to press the assault-with-intent-to-kill charges she had lodged against Oscar Junior Johnson because "as soon as he gets out of jail, I'm going to marry...