Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking through the records of company grade combat officers who were recalled to active duty from the inactive reserve, one finds thousands sent to Korea, to fight and perhaps to die, within four weeks after leaving civilian life. Many of these junior officers saw no action in World War II. None received the "six months' advanced U.S. combat training" proposed for the 1951 West Point graduate, and none partook of even one hour's drill in the five years between wars . . . And how about giving a little consideration to the 40 men who must serve under these officers...
...bazooka is so high that cutbacks have been ordered. Tied in with the airborne's effort to lighten all equipment, several new items have been developed. Among them: a new entrenching tool, four pounds lighter than the old; an aluminum-nylon helmet, 8% lighter; new tropical combat boots, 3/4 Ib. lighter. Also due to be lightened: rifles, pistols, machine guns and ammunition...
...perhaps with air blows at Manchuria-he could drive the Chinese back behind the Yalu. Yet, with the Chinese licking the wounds that Ridgway's punches had inflicted on them, he was trying to negotiate a truce. The job was not designed for the liking of a hardhitting combat leader, but Good Soldier Ridgway did the job as well as he knew...
Public view of the 2½-day veterans' congress was brief; Sailor Malan asked the press to leave before he outlined strategy for his group. His plans included: formation of five-man groups in every town to combat the Nationalist secret societies, 2) going underground if Prime Minister Malan bans his veterans movement. Said Sailor Malan: "Despite our spectacular beginning, we have only succeeded in focusing public attention on the dangers besetting South Africa. The battle has yet to commence in earnest...
...outsize, curved screen and six synchronized sound tracks, which combine to give a remarkable illusion of depth (see diagram). Waller's invention got its first rigorous testing during the war as a gunnery trainer, was used by the armed forces to instruct aerial gunners under closely simulated combat conditions. But it was not until last fall that Cinerama, Inc., controlled by the Reeves Soundcraft Corp., developer of the Cinerama sound system, made a deal to put the new medium in show business. The deal gives exclusive commercial rights to Cinerama films for five years to a company formed...