Word: bloodiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crusade starts with Japan's march on Manchuria in 1931, goes through the bloodiest and most dramatic scenes of the Pacific war, and ends with the Communist aggression in Korea. To piece it together, M.O.T.'s men looked over millions of feet of film shot by U.S. and allied combat cameramen, as well as captured enemy film. The finished product is a fast, exciting news drama. Still to be put together: the final chapter, depending on the outcome of the war & peace maneuvers in Korea...
...drink in the bar of Jerusalem's King David Hotel, Richard Usborne caught this strange snatch of conversation from a nearby table. He lost the rest of it in the buzz of barroom talk. That was in May 1941. In the next ten years, the world fought the bloodiest war in its history, the British Empire nearly went down to defeat, the King David Hotel (bar included) was badly damaged by a terrorist bomb. But Richard Usborne, an advertising man, never stopped worrying about what could possibly be the story behind that lion...
Into the Textbooks. Despite their differences, Smith and Rupertus planned the Peleliu invasion (the 1st Division's bloodiest battle of the war). When Rupertus broke his ankle while watching landing practice, some doubt was expressed by topside on his physical ability to command at Peleliu. Smith loyally argued for the superior who had berated him, and Rupertus commanded the operation on crutches...
...another period of recuperation (on a nightmarish island called Pavuvu, which had been picked as a "rest area" in one of the war's major snafus), then tackled its next assignment-Peleliu. It was the division's first strongly opposed landing and its bloodiest, hardest battle of the war. The Navy and air preparation had knocked out only a small part of the cleverly protected Jap installations. On the beach the marines were caught in a tremendous torrent of fire. The division took Peleliu at a cost of 6,000 casualties out of 23,000 men (of whom...
...hold the Sochon-Taejon-Taegu-Pusan railroad (see map)-double-tracked from Pusan to Taejon, the U.S. field headquarters-not only to feed the U.S. build-up in men and weapons but for lateral mobility behind the defense line. In the western sector, focus of last week's bloodiest fighting, Taejon and the rail line had a fine natural defense in front of them: the Kum River...