Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lower torso armor" will weigh 4 lbs. (Weight of vest and shorts together: 12 lbs.). Marine Corps armored shorts, which weigh about a pound less than the Army version, have been in experimental use in Korea since early November. The reaction of marines who have worn them in combat: "Favorable...
...individual end is death for some, wounds or capture for many more, and rotation home for most of them. Rotation is a human necessity, but its effect on the army as a fighting force is nonetheless corrosive. A division commander figured recently that the majority of his combat soldiers had been in Korea for only five months. Platoon and company leaders seldom keep their units for longer than four months. For some reason, very few captains and first lieutenants experienced in company command are coming out on replacement, and there is a shortage of company leaders. Noncommissioned squad leaders...
...every month. Its some 40 illustrated pages serve up a blend of Negro and colored (i.e., mixed blood) life, sports, society, sex, scandal and politics that South Africa's non-whites can get in no other magazine. It was started by Publisher Bailey, 33, an ex-R.A.F. combat pilot, who settled down to raise sheep and breed horses after the war. As editor, Bailey picked a white South African friend, Anthony Sampson, 26, whom he had known at Oxford where they had often discussed South Africa's race problem. Drum is staffed largely by non-white writers...
...shot across the air base with a roar like a thunderclap. This week Long Island's Republic Aviation Corp. proudly announced the results of the flight: its XF-91, powered by a General Electric J47 turbojet and a Reaction Motors rocket engine, had become the first U.S. combat plane to fly through the sound barrier in level flight. (Other supersonic planes, e.g., the Bell X-1 and the Douglas Skyrocket, are experimental speedsters faster than Republic's XF-91 but not designed for battle.) The XF-91 had performed the trick with an extra push from its rocket...
...criticism of U.S. foreign and military policy aroused some resentment, but there was mostly praise for its skillful, informed exposition of the fighting side of the war. Commander Edward Beach, U.S.N., wrote the most exciting of the action books in Submarine!, which showed for the first time what submerged combat was really like. The services were still pumping out solid tomes that celebrated and detailed their contributions. Among the few U.S. war leaders who had not yet published their memoirs, only Admiral Ernest J. King came forth with a full-dress account. His Fleet Admiral King reflected the toughness that...