Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Year's Eve bugles blared from the Red lines and a massive assault, preceded by an artillery barrage, began. Chinese and Korean Communists, leaving thousands of dead behind them, made two deep thrusts into the U.S. lines, one north of Seoul and one northeast. The Red bid for South Korea had begun...
...command of the Eighth Army, MacArthur announced the appointment of Lieut. General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, U.S. pioneer of the airborne assault in World War II, who was in Washington last week as deputy to Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins. Born at Fort Monroe, Va. 55 years ago, Ridgway planned the first large-scale U.S. parachute-troop operation in Sicily (1943). Through no fault of his, that one was a snafu, but he kept on tirelessly pushing the airborne doctrine, jumped with his troops (the 82nd Airborne Division) in Normandy, later became commander of an airborne corps...
Last week Colonel Lawrence Wilkinson New York State's new Civil Defense boss, showed that he did not believe an enemy would necessarily be tactically orthodox in planning a bombing assault: he issued a detailed plan for detecting radioactive contamination...
...Panic. While the infantrymen in the line drew back slowly before the Chinese assault, the evacuation at the dockside went on apace. There was no panic, no disorder. But the tempo of the operation stepped up sharply. At the docks themselves, U.S., Norwegian and Japanese merchant ships took on load after load of trucks, tanks, gasoline, rations, dismantled aircraft, jeeps, tents and kitchen stoves. The black, mud-choked roads within the dock area were jammed bumper to bumper with mud-spattered supply trains grinding and slithering down to the ships. The supply convoys passed acres of gasoline drums, quarter-mile...
...Brussels, free-spending Briton George Dawson, who was wanted by U.S. authorities in Germany on charges of shady dealings in war surplus, slugged it out with London Daily Express Reporter Bernard West when he tried to interview him. Later, Express officials ordered West to drop assault charges against Dawson, explained coolly: "Express staff reporters do not fight with hoodlums...