Word: combate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a hammer, we will become mosquitoes." Instead of a single large army, they concentrated on building small, highly trained cadres. As the nucleus of the F.L.N. (Front de Libération Nationale) took shape, Mohammed ben Bella, a former French army noncom with a brilliant World War II combat record, negotiated promises of aid from Egypt. Then at i a.m. of All Saints' Day, 1954, simultaneously across Algeria, 30 F.L.N. bands struck. The Algerian war had begun...
Though now a highly organized and professional army, the F.L.N. sticks to guerrilla tactics and suffers when it does not. Sleeping by day and fighting by night, it moves in 40-man combat groups, attacks only when it has a French unit at a disadvantage, withdraws in the face of any major French force. Result is that although the overweight French army has won some local successes-notably the stamping out of terrorism in the casbah of Algiers by General Jacques Massu's hardened paratroopers-most of its time is spent in vain pursuit of a will...
First U.S. air-to-air missile to be tested in real combat is the Navy's Sidewinder, which was adopted by the Air Force and used to equip Chinese Nationalist Sabre jets flying out of Formosa (TIME, Oct. 6). During one air operation against the Chinese Communists, the Nationalists used Sidewinders to knock down an estimated ten Red jets while coming off unscathed themselves. The Sidewinders given to the Chinese were an early model, but their general design, with improvements, is still...
Since the battle of Quemoy began Aug. 23, the Nationalists have downed 29 MIGs, damaged nine. Nationalist losses: none. A major factor is the superiority of Nationalist pilots, many of whom have logged up to 1,400 hours in the air, boast more flying and combat experience than U.S. pilots stationed on Formosa. The Communist pilots, kept from training by a jet-fuel shortage, have proved no match for them. The gun camera films show that the Red Chinese pilots scatter across the skies. Trained in U.S. tactics, the Nationalists fly in tight pairs and foursomes, allowing them to jump...
...better bet was to spend the money on a setup like the U.S.'s SAGE system: improved DEW-line radar, electronic computers to guide 2,000-m.p.h. missiles such as the U.S. Bomarc. The tough-minded decision left the proud R.C.A.F. with little future as a combat flying force. Its role will be that of a missile operator, plus such auxiliary jobs as anti-submarine patrol and air transport...