Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boom in helicopters was set off by their breathtaking rescue work in Korea. In eight months, the "flying egg beaters" plucked 1,700 wounded and stranded men off the battlefield, saving them from death or capture. Commanding officers have found helicopters a smooth, swift substitute for the jolting jeep for front-line tours. Last week the helicopters found another customer. The Army, hitherto restricted to small craft (under 4,000 pounds), got permission to fly the big copters, will form transport companies with 23 helicopters each, specially equipped to carry troops in amphibious, mountain and jungle warfare...
...Korea. At Taegu's bloody "bowling alley," John Hersey Michaelis (rhymes with regale us), better known as "Mike," and his redoubtable 27th Infantry (Wolfhound) Regiment, now better known as "The Fire Brigade," fought bravely and brilliantly to help hold the Pusan perimeter. Sinewy Mike Michaelis won a battlefield promotion to full colonel, and the D.S.C. for "extraordinary heroism" under fire...
...second time West Pointer Michaelis had won a temporary eagle. In World War II, he jumped with the 502nd Parachute Infantry of the 101st Division on the Normandy beachhead, took command when his superior was killed, won battlefield promotion to colonel. He was wounded twice in Holland, but managed to leave the hospital in time for the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, he was aide to Chief of Staff Dwight Eisenhower. On leaving the Pentagon, Ike wrote Mike how proud he had been to "have had as aide a sterling young combat officer...
...movies runs in cycles dependent on the world situation," he added. "Just before a war, the adventures of the 'buck private in training' are released; in the early stages of war comes the patriotic 'glory' movie to boost morale; and about three years after war, the muddy and gory 'battlefield' picture that gives the public a feeling of relief and gratitude...
Fourth--If she had a son instead of a daughter, she would feel differently, for then she would know the REAL boy--his mind, his heart and his body, and she would know that it is much too tender an age to face the rigors of the battlefield, and to improve thereby...