Word: beachhead
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Phase One of the war had been the dismal series of retreats to a defensible beachhead line. Phase Two had been the creditable establishing and holding of the beachhead. But Phase Three-the buildup preparatory to a breakout-was moving too slowly. At the rate the manpower buildup was going last week, a general counteroffensive seemed no nearer than it had when the beachhead was first established. The enemy was still strong, still attacking, still forcing General Walker to dance to the Communist tune...
...were described by General Walton Walker last week as making the "last gasp," still had some wind left. Despite the fact that they showed marked signs of hurt from incessant U.S. air attacks, the North Koreans last week managed to mount a heavy general attack all along the U.S. beachhead in Korea. It was an impressive and dangerous enemy effort, the fourth major Red try in one month to achieve a breakthrough (see below...
Even so, there were still not enough troops to man the 120-mile beachhead perimeter adequately, and the U.S. was still making fast shifts of fighting units to prevent enemy probings from becoming breakthroughs. The Reds' shifts of strength, on the other hand, were increasingly slow and cumbersome...
...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...