Word: battlefield
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sweating in the hot sunshine, Linder pointed toward heaven and let the Shenandoah of cliches roll. "Four score and nine years ago, the Men in Grey ceased to resist oppression on the battlefield . . . Four score and nine times Old Father Time has completed his yearly cycle since the last bugle call was sounded and the last rebel yell was heard fighting under the Stars and Bars . . . Four score and nine times the shrinking violets have timidly raised their heads from their winter hiding place to gladden the hearts of mankind. The rosebuds have sprung into new life and flaunted their...
...Korea a year later. The division found itself in a new, essentially defensive role. In 429 combat days, the 45th spent most of its time in counterattacks and blackface night patrols, but it saw plenty of action, too-at Baldy, the Punchbowl, and at Heartbreak Ridge. In the battlefield judgment of James Van Fleet, the 45th, "as far as combat effectiveness is concerned, is perhaps as good as any division we have...
There is also the question of the dead. The French say they have counted 6,925 Communists dead on the battlefield. There are also the French dead, buried reverently in the rubble-when there is time. Nowhere in the shrinking perimeter can the garrison escape this intimacy of death and injury, with its abrasive effect on morale...
...difficult and frustrating. But on all essential points Britain and the United States, together with the other nations who contributed to stopping the Communist invaders, are united in purpose. We will not let each other down at the conference table any more than we did on the battlefield...
...Honest John" artillery rocket, smaller and more mobile, with a 15-mile range for battlefield support of infantry. A freeflight missile, uncontrolled by electronic devices, it is aimed like a conventional artillery piece but packs a much bigger punch. Even carrying ordinary explosives, one "Honest John" furnishes fire power equal to hundreds of artillery shells...