Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first Chief of Staff of the separate Air Force. He began by reviewing the nation's reckless dismemberment of the world's greatest air force. In less than two postwar years, it had shrunk from 200 groups to 55, of. which only two were fit for combat. "In retrospect," said Spaatz, "you can see why Mr. Stalin felt pretty free to move around...
With a task force of 22 other warships spread across the sea for miles around her, the aircraft carrier Wasp plowed east in mid-Atlantic one night last week, bound for sendee in the Mediterranean. In darkness she launched her planes over heavy seas for a combat exercise. At a little after 10 p.m., the Wasp turned into the wind to take her brood back aboard. With a crump of rending metal, the sheer bow of the 27,100-ton carrier crashed into the starboard side of the 1,630-ton destroyer-minesweeper Hobson...
...peacetime stints in China, Nicaragua, the Panama Canal Zone, the Philippines, Brazil, the Caribbean Command area, and at the United Nations. No stranger to Europe, he led 82nd Airborne paratroopers in World War II and there picked up his familiar hallmark-a grenade hung ready for throwing, on his combat harness. In the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, he served under Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery, who will now be his deputy commander at SHAPE. Monty says he is "delighted" to serve under Ridgway...
...days," says Utsugi of the time when he first joined the imperial police force, "Japan's pickpockets were proud professional men who would never stoop to employ such tactics as cutting garments with a knife." They plied their trade with stealth, skill and subtlety, and to combat them, the young detective matched skill with skill and stealth with stealth. He soon became as good a pickpocket as the pickpockets. On busy days, like those in the annual flower-viewing season, when the public wandered among spring blossoms, careless of material treasures, Utsugi handled minor felonies by simply picking...
...that pilots could continue to function in the maneuvers of high-speed combat, the Navy and Air Force developed G-suits-nylon coveralls with air bladders mounted at the abdomen, thighs and shins. All five bladders are interconnected, and, in the cockpit, they are attached to an air pump. The flow of air to the G-suit is regulated by a weighted valve spring. The same G forces that tug at the pilot move the valve spring. As air is admitted to the G-suit, its bladders become tourniquets, preventing the blood from pooling in, the blood vessels of legs...