Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third time in 17 months, Mack Ingram, North Carolina Negro farmer, went on trial last week, charged with assaulting a 17-year-old tobacco grower's daughter, although he had not been within 50 feet of her at the time. In the first trial in recorder's court, Ingram explained that he had mistaken blue-jeaned Willa Jean Boswell for one of her brothers, had started to follow her across a cornfield to ask if he could borrow the family trailer. When she took fright and ran, he turned back to his car. The judge, acting...
...many an officer of the First Division in Korea, actual service in the line often seemed less important than training exercises the division was running along the coast every time it managed to wheedle enough ships from the Navy: battalion-size assault landings calculated to extinguish the defensive heresies picked up in combat, and to remind troops of the appetite for headlong attack expected of them in their kind of war. The discouraging stalemates and attrition of Korea, in a word, had only whetted the most gleaming weapon the Marine Corps carries when it is panoplied for war: the quietly...
...Parris Island, and was shipped forthwith to France as a second lieutenant, to help erect-although he did not know it then- a milestone in Marine Corps history. Marines had fought in every sort of battle-as riflemen in the tops of sailing vessels, as landing parties and assault units against every sort of foe, from the British at Trenton and Princeton to the Boxers in Peking. But in France they fought for the first time as a brigade within an infantry division...
...their luck to be teamed with the 2nd U.S. Infantry Division, whose commanders believed implicitly in the efficacy of headlong assault. That was the Marines' own traditional philosophy of battle : throwing the big punch, subjecting an enemy to constant pressure, risking big initial casualties in violent assault rather than submitting to a long, wearing attrition. Second Lieut. Shepherd, U.S.M.C., went into action as a platoon leader with the 5th Marine Regiment at Belleau Wood, was hit in the neck by a machine-gun slug, fought on with his men for three days and was hit again before he finally...
...years which followed-years in which the Marines at one point had fewer men than the New York City police force. As always, some Marines were in battle-fighting in the Nicaraguan hills against the rebel Sandino. Others were engaged in a momentous experiment-perfecting the techniques of amphibious assault, the technique that was to carry the Marines in World War II from Guadalcanal to Tokyo...