Word: combating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Koje Island's new prison commandant, a first-class combat man, emerged last week as a soldier who could also use his wits in the most disagreeable of rear-area jobs. Boldly and shrewdly, Brigadier General Haydon L. Boatner had chosen Compound 76, scene of the Dodd-Colson coup, as the first to be tackled in bringing order to the prison. After the bloody battle in which Compound 76's 6,000 hard-core Communists were subdued (TIME, June 16), the other tough enclosures on Koje toppled like ninepins, with no further fighting between guards and prisoners...
...Army transportation crews which sped gas, ammunition and food to Patton's Third Army when it outran its supply lines during the August 1944 Allied breakthrough in France. Red Ball Express (railroadese for top priority freight) captures some of the excitement of its subject through wartime combat film pieced out with action scenes shot at Fort Eustis...
Submarine!, by Edward L. Beach. The dramatic underside of the Pacific War, as told by a combat submariner (TIME, June...
...production of The Narrow Margin, which successfully disproves Hollywood's old-ideas of good movie making, is an indication of the trend the industry is now starting to combat enemies like television which have been taking huge bites in box office returns. There is an economy move sweeping the world's glamour capital that would warm the heart of Congress. With this new move is going a nation-wide search for talent, and a general firing and salary cutting process that is shaking the foundations of many of Beverly Hills' swank shacks. The results can do the industry no harm...
...within sight of Midway during the great battle with the Japanese fleet, she ran on to a coral reef and stuck. But next time out, there began the thrill of the chase and the underseas tension that were the normal climate of the subs. As in all forms of combat, the best of training was only partial preparation for the first attack and counterattack. Moving in for the kill, lining up the first ene my ship in the sights, the torpedoes crashing into the sides of the target - those things made any crew jubilant. But then came the Japanese destroyers...