Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea last year, when Assistant Defense Secretary Anna Rosenberg promised that no one would have to put in a second winter, the generals winced. Both Ridgway and Van Fleet bluntly told her that it was impossible. Combat troops might be sent home, provided that there was no new Communist offensive, but most of the others would have to stay. Anna hastily amended her promise. Even then, the generals were skeptical...
Last week Anna proudly pointed out that her second promise had been kept. Since the first rotation ship left Kobe, Japan last March, 152,304 officers and G.I.s, 72,000 Navymen, and 29,991 Marines had been sent home-every last combat man except 137 critical specialists. To replace them, the Army had shipped out 225,000 fresh troops plus two full National Guard Divisions (California's 40th and Oklahoma's 45th...
...Korea has made a pass at her. Says she: "They are so very correct, always. It is all one family, and I am their sister. Oh, they are so fine-I love them all." Her saddest job: writing home to the families of men killed in combat...
...major in World War I, he was active in the Reserves between the wars, and, in 1940, when most of his fellow Wall Streeters were moving to their first jobs in Washington, he was called to active duty as a colonel. Asking for combat duty, he was eventually sent to the Pacific in command of the 136th Infantry Regiment, but when he got to Hawaii, he was called back by the Pentagon to supervise the growing problem of contract terminations...
Only 15 of the wing's bombers have crystals needed to tune their radios to combat channels used by the U.S. Air Force in Europe. Although its theoretical mission is to prepare for night intruder operations, none of the planes has radar equipment for night bombing...