Word: bayoneted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese soldiers attacking a ridge line near Waewon last week were shocked to come face to face with swarthy, fiercely mustachioed Turks howling down upon them with bayonets fixed. In this and other Turkish bayonet charges some 200 Chinese were killed, and soon stories of the Turks were spreading like a tonic along the U.N. line...
tolerate guards with dirty boots, later sent for the assistant commandant of the camp and sternly reminded him : "I am a General. I am entitled to a sentry with a fixed bayonet." On the day he was trans ferred to another prison, the general showed up "as smartly dressed as though he had been going on a ceremonial parade...
...down to pass a sandbag barricade. The crowds lining the street surged out around us, offered us sesame cookies and handshakes. Farther down the street a South Korean cavalryman put his horse through a victory prance while he waved his rifle aloft, a Communist battle flag impaled on his bayonet...
...Hood's life, was the beginning of a legend. "Down into the creek ravine wallowed [Hood's brigade] under the deadly spittle of the belching artillery on the hill. Up on the other side they came and with a terrific shout gave the first line the bayonet. It fell back on the second line and it broke. As the blue mass retreated up the hill the fire of the Texans was poured into it with terrible effect." Hood had broken through...
...race track. A calm, kindly, humble soldier who was chief of staff to Tanker Patton in World War II, Gay paced up & down in shabby coveralls, looking less like a general than like a Kansas farmer worrying about crops. Pointing to his situation map with a slim, sheathed French bayonet disguised as a riding crop, General, Gay said: "I hope the enemy is as confused about the situation...