Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early morning, armored combat teams of the crack American Constabulary thrust westward in a surprise attack. Paratroops dropped near Frankenthal to secure a Rhine bridgehead. Partisan guerrillas closed in near Kaiserlautern and "destroyed" a supply dump. Threatened on their flanks, the 1st and 4th Divisions reeled back until units of the 2nd Armored Division, in reserve, moved up to hit the aggressors and cover the retreat...
...allied naval units bombarded east and west coasts of North Korea, and carrier-based aircraft and bombers from bases in Japan and Okinawa began tearing up enemy supply lines. Next day allied troops attacked all along the line. By nightfall 100,000 men of nine allied nations were in combat...
Veterans disabled since World War II, Whether in combat service, routine duty, training, or maneuvers, will receive the same vocational training benefits given to World War II veterans, according to a bill signed Friday by President Truman...
...junior varsity football team will travel tomorrow to Dudley, Mass. to do combat with a Nichols Junior College eleven about which little is known. Jayvee coach Norm Shepard expects Nichols to use the T formation, the same offensive set-up that the Crimson will employ...
Flying Leathernecks (RKO Radio] is the latest in the long line of films celebrating the exploits of U.S. arms in World War II. Except for the fact that its heroes are U.S. Marine flyers whose combat feats look unusually spectacular in Technicolor, the new movie differs from most of its predecessors no more than one can of C rations from another...