Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were so outstandingly successful. The brass had good cause to wonder: of the 823 MIG-158 shot down by the Fifth Air Force, well over a third were bagged by an elite handful of 38 jet aces, representing only 5% of all the Air Force fighter pilots who saw combat...
Those rough, tough '"Thunderbirds" of the 45th Division may have "participated in more combat days than any three Marine divisions" but oh, brother, what a difference there can be between combat days...
...look at the record: the 45th's casualty loss of 20,993 in 511 days averages 41 men per combat day, whereas the Fifth Marine Division, which was in action only 25 days in World War II, paid the horrible price of 8,935 casualties on Iwo Jima, or 357 men per combat...
JORDAN "would long ago have ceased to exist as an independent state" but for the $200 million it got from Britain, U.N., aid to Palestine refugees and Point Four. One benefit: Jordan's Arab Legion is "the best-trained combat force in any of the Arab states...
Clint Murchison is the kind of wheeler-dealer who tends to prove that statement. Though he is now turning over many of his properties to his sons, that does not mean he is retiring from combat: "I guess you could say that I am starting all over again." Could it be uranium? Murchison's face lights up at the word; he has already equipped some of his oilfield crews with detecting devices, just in case. Murchison has no doubts about which of his many deals gives him the most pleasure. Says he: "The next...