Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three years as head of the Air University, then added another medal, the Legion of Merit, for his service (1946) as senior U.S. member on the United Nations Military Staff Committee. From Secretary of Defense General George C. Marshall came a personal letter. Said Airman Kenney, World War I combat pilot and one of the last of his breed on active duty in the Air Force: "I don't know what I'm going to do or where I'm going to be. But if you hear anybody say I'm going...
When Colonel Meirowsky first proposed such teams last year, higher echelons frowned on the idea. It was felt that skilled nerve men are too hard to come by to risk exposing them in combat areas, that intricate operations cannot be per formed in field hospitals. Meirowsky, 41, a German-born neurosurgeon who volunteered for active duty, refused even to consider the first objection. He argued until the Army agreed to let him "study" the possibilities...
...with Japan's march on Manchuria in 1931, goes through the bloodiest and most dramatic scenes of the Pacific war, and ends with the Communist aggression in Korea. To piece it together, M.O.T.'s men looked over millions of feet of film shot by U.S. and allied combat cameramen, as well as captured enemy film. The finished product is a fast, exciting news drama. Still to be put together: the final chapter, depending on the outcome of the war & peace maneuvers in Korea...
Last week it looked as if the Rangers might go out of the Army again: word came from Korea that Ranger companies have been broken up, the men sent individually to the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team in Japan...
...dressed in necklaces, dirty shirts and bright loincloths knotted in front, met on the broiling plain. The aggrieved Weasels demanded 4,000 goats for Aguilar's death, plus war reparations. The Blackbirds balked at so costly a fine. Both factions then agreed to stage a man-to-man combat between Murderer Velasquez and a Weasel named Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse came out of the fight wounded and sulking, and threatened to commit suicide to distress the Blackbirds. At this impasse, last week the Guajiros appealed to the Venezuelan government to negotiate a peace. Pending arbitration, an uneasy truce settled...