Word: combating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Give Us the Tools." What does the new Eisenhower order mean? It means that Chiang is at liberty to use his strength as he sees fit. Chiang has twelve ready divisions plus about 300,000 soldiers who can soon be brought to combat-readiness. He has an air force of some 300 planes (including transports). He has a navy of 50,000 men and 60 ships (the largest ship is a destroyer). The Nationalists claim contact with powerful groups of mainland guerrillas. Chiang has said that a Nationalist counteroffensive could be readied by 1954. "Give us the tools," he said...
Marine Captain Jerry Coleman, Yankee second baseman and a dive-bomber pilot in the Pacific in World War II, went into another combat inning. His score for the first two days in Korea: two enemy railroad bridges destroyed with 1,000-lb. bombs. Scheduled to join him and fellow Marine aviators in Korea this week: Captain Ted Williams, sometime outfielder for Boston...
...Fleet, West Point classmate of Ike Eisenhower, went to Korea in 1951 with an unexcelled reputation for combat leadership, a reputation earned after D-day when he rose within eight months from a regimental command to command of a corps. Less widely appreciated was his success in postwar Greece, where, without formal command over the Greek army, he led Greek forces to victory over tough Communist rebels. "Van Flit" as the Greeks lovingly called him came to personify the unity of the non-Communist world, a major political achievement in that intensely political and divided country...
Throughout Van Fleet's tour in Korea, U.S. correspondents, always reluctant to credit a general with anything more than bare literacy, continued to characterize him as a "bluff soldier"-a combat type with no political brains. What they meant was that he did not agree with their judgment of how to treat Korea's Syngman Rhee. Van Fleet, simple in the sense that he knows a simple issue when he sees one, recognized Rhee as the only Korean leader of any substance. His policy was to work with Rhee while the U.S. State Department...
...about his mission in Rome under the noses of the Germans. Promoted to command of the 101st Airborne Division, he parachuted into the Cotentin Peninsula with his troops the night before Dday, thereby becoming the first U.S. general officer to fight France in World War II. Made his second combat jump with the 101st when it invaded Holland, where Taylor was wounded. Was back in Washington on a special mission when his 101st was surrounded at Bastogne. Flew back to Europe, then jeeped into Bastogne in time to lead the division through the last month of the Battle...