Word: combating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ARMED FORCES Extra Duty General James A. Van Fleet had-in the opinion of his West Point Classmate Dwight Eisenhower-the best World War II combat record of "any regimental, division or corps commander we produced." On his recent visit to Korea, Eisenhower chatted with Van Fleet about his retirement, due this January; Van Fleet decided to put it off. There remained one hitch: for Van Fleet to remain on active duty, he needed the approval of Army Secretary Frank Pace Jr., who did not relish the fact that a Van Fleet letter criticizing Administration military policy had been used...
...prefer fighting at night, but the Chinese and North Koreans have good and obvious reasons for avoiding daylight assaults. The U.N. artillery, close air support and air observation function best by day. At night it takes about 20 minutes for star shells or a flare plane to illuminate a combat area, and this time is valuable to the furtive Reds. Their own artillery, though abundant, is sluggish in following a moving target...
Like an Accordion. When the Korean war broke, the company was ready to step up production of Panthers (the first Navy jets to go into combat in Korea) by means of its "accordion plan." To keep capacity flexible without big capital outlays, this plan called for subcontracting wing panels, tail surfaces and other smaller parts to outsiders, not only for Panthers but also for the Cougar, a swept-wing Panther. Thus, Swirbul has kept his work force down to 11,800-less than half Grumman's wartime peak, although his order backlog has soared to roughly $900 million...
...under the terms of the European Army Treaty. Typical was Luftwaffe Colonel Hans Ulrich Rudel, the one-legged Panzerknacker (tankbuster) whom Göring improbably credited with one Russian battleship, two heavy cruisers and 532 Red army tanks in 2,500 sorties. Decorated with the Wehrmacht's highest combat honors,* Rudel escaped to Buenos Aires at war's end, sold his memoirs (Nevertheless . . .) and, despite his wooden leg, bested all comers as tennis player, swimmer, skier and mountaineer...
...features. He picked up new readers steadily, experimented with such ideas as departmentalizing the news, developed a staff studded with columnists and breezy local writers. During World War II, he resigned from the Navy, after serving as a lieutenant commander, to enlist as a private in the Marines, did combat duty in the Pacific and came out a lieutenant. Then he went back into the Navy on active duty as a full commander...