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First Phase: fight a delaying action toward Pusan, an excellent port only 150 miles from Japan, across waters controlled by the U.S. Navy and Air Force. Establish a perimeter around Pusan with both flanks resting on the sea (see map). The ideal beachhead would be small enough to be held by three or four well-armed U.S. divisions plus regrouped South Korean troops (see below), yet large enough to protect Allied activities in & around the port from enemy artillery fire. Barring Russia's intervention, the U.S and U.N. forces would have control of the air and sea, and ought...
Fitted with a mask of wax, Saint Maria's skeleton had been brought to Rome for public veneration from her home town of Nettuno, near the Anzio beachhead of World War II. The ceremony had to be moved out of the basilica into St. Peter's Square because of the great crowds-estimated by the Vatican radio at 500,000. Pope Pius XII, robed in scarlet in honor of Maria's martyrdom and wearing the triregnum, his three-tiered crown, spoke from a portable throne to a throng that stretched before him for a quarter...
...time the U.S. Fifth Army had taken Rocca Massima, a village about twelve miles from the Anzio beachhead, the inhabitants were sharply divided about the future. Lean, greying Igino Cianfone, the village blacksmith, drew together the village leftists, talked 200 into paying Communist Party dues. Meanwhile, his good friend Deputy Postmaster Gustavo Coriddi enlisted village moderates in the Christian Democratic Party...
...Nationalist press claimed a victory after the first four days-6,000 Reds captured, up to 4,000 killed, the invasion assault blocked. In Hoihow, firecrackers popped jubilantly. Next day the celebration fizzled. The Communists had won again. On the sixth day after making their beachhead, the men of Lin Piao's Communist Fourth Field Army marched triumphantly into Hoihow. With what remained of his 160,000 defenders, Hsueh Yueh fell back hopelessly to Hainan's south coast...
Retired Marine Brigadier General James P. S. Devereux, hero of Wake Island, established a beachhead against Maryland's Democratic Representative William P. Bolton by announcing his candidacy for the Republican nomination...