Word: bunker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Siberia & Bunker Hill. The Marines had no chance to get rusty, as General Selden had feared they might. The Chinese Reds began a "creeping war" against their positions. Fortnight ago a beefed-up Chinese platoon attacked a small Marine force on "Siberia," an insignificant hill about four miles east of Panmunjom. In 26 hours Siberia changed hands nine times. When the enemy took it for the fifth time and showed signs of holding on, the U.S. position looked untenable. For two days, Marine artillery and planes raked Siberia. Then, early last week, the Marines occupied "Bunker Hill," which is higher...
...popped up on either side of him. He shot the first through the head, pivoted, firing from the hip, and shot the second through the chest. He leaped down into the trench, raced along it, firing as he ran. Five more Communists fell. He threw his grenade into a bunker. Two more enemy soldiers burst out of the smoke. He killed them. He ran back down the hill with bullets kicking the snowy turf around him, got more ammunition, gathered an attacking party and led it up the slope...
Leaving the appalling mess of the Korean truce talks and the prisoner-of-war issue behind him, Matthew Bunker Ridgway headed for his new job: Supreme Commander, Allied Powers Europe. When his Air Force Constellation touched down at Washington's National Airport one evening last week, Matt Ridgway, a four-star general in midpassage, had a chance to talk to his bosses about the gloomy past and the hopeful, dangerous future...
...founding fathers of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford believed in American art-and the closer to Connecticut the better. Painting No. 1 in the first catalogue the Atheneum ever published was The Battle of Bunker's Hill by John Trumbull, and the catalogue took pains to point out that "Col. Trumbull, the artist, was on that day adjutant of the First Regiment of Connecticut troops stationed at Roxbury, and saw (the) action from that point." Last week, no years after its founding by Daniel Wadsworth, the Atheneum was proudly showing the public how its horizons have broadened...
Expectations that the general would appear at the 1951 Commencement were shattered last May when Bunker announced that "previous engagements would prevent (him) from showing...