Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months later the assault on Inchon bore out the editors' mid-July estimate of the situation and kicked off the third phase...
...minutely planned and elaborately organized amphibious assault in Korea last week was as different from the Willaumez snafu as an F80 jet is from the baling-wire crates of World War I. Since Willaumez, a great deal has been learned about the art of amphibious warfare. More than any other marine, "O.P." Smith, sometimes called "the Professor," had labored to get World War II beach assault experience into textbooks where all U.S. planners could...
Last week Oliver Prince Smith, now a major general commanding the 1st Marine Division, was ashore in Korea with the 23,000 marines who had spearheaded Douglas MacArthur's assault. Up to the time when the first marine set foot ashore, the heaviest responsibility lay on Rear Admiral James H. ("Jimmy") Doyle, amphibious attack commander, and on Vice Admiral Arthur Struble, commander of the Seventh Fleet, who softened up the shore defenses and got the troops to the beaches. After all troops were ashore, the ground fighting would be taken over by General Almond as commander of MacArthur...
...star general, to command the 1st Division. While Eddie Craig with his advance combat team kicked off the Marine fighting in Korea, Smith fleshed out the depleted division with reserves and regulars summoned from all over the country. Last week, in the kind of ship-to-shore assault he knows like the back of his hand, Oliver Prince Smith was in the Korean war at last...
Self-Defense. In Rutherford, N.J., Magistrate Allen C. Mathias ruled that Filling Station Operator John Valk Jr. was not guilty of assault in chasing Frank W. Fryer, who, without buying any gas, insisted that Valk wipe his windshield, check his tires, test his battery...