Word: beachhead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sherrod, now military correspondent in TIME'S Washington bureau, went ashore with U.S. troops at Attu, Tarawa and many another Pacific beachhead during World War II. After the war, as senior correspondent in the Far East, he traveled thousands of miles on a roving assignment for TIME, following the news in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. He has almost completed an extracurricular activity-the official Marine aviation history of World...
...beachhead perimeter was taking on the likeness of a tough elastic barrier which yielded locally under pressure but quickly snapped back to upset the invaders. Said one commander: "If we had four new divisions this afternoon we could sweep straight through the enemy...
...divisions in the line, five more than they reportedly had two weeks ago, indicating that the Reds had committed the bulk of their reserves.This week the enemy was again massing troops in the south between Chinju and Masan, but by all possible human calculations, the U.N. beachhead was assured. It was the best week for the U.N. forces since the war began-and perhaps the war's turning point...
...Walton Walker as a roving troubleshooter. After a heavy artillery and air bombardment had rocked the Reds, Michaelis' men and the South Koreans, spearheaded by Pershing tanks, recaptured Kumhwa and drove on toward Kunwi. Thus was exorcised what Eighth Army headquarters called the "gravest threat" to the Allied beachhead in Korea...
Neither radio nor television has yet produced anything to match such notable, on-the-spot broadcasts of World War II as the round-the-clock reports from the Normandy beachhead, the liberation of Paris, or the running account of a bombing raid on Berlin. But radiomen were taking considerable satisfaction from the surveys which showed a sharp climb in radio news audiences (up 18% over last year). With listeners hungry for early, accurate news reports from the Korean front, many a television owner was beginning to turn back to his radio again...