Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department and the Voice were quick to state that the speech was not a call for a Georgian uprising against the U.S.S.R., just a little psychological combat. Modest beginning though it was, the broadcast showed that the State Department was moving further & further from its old shibboleths of "containment" of world Communism and peaceful "coexistence with the Soviet System...
...September filled with high patriotism and thoughts of past glory (four Presidential Unit Citations, 987 Silver Stars, 75 D.S.C.s and two Congressional Medals of Honor in the Pacific area in World War II). On paper, it figured to be a good division. More than 70% of its officers had combat experience, 74% of the men were high-school graduates, 18.4% had attended college, 90% of the division was under...
...last week, after nine months of training, the 43rd Division was far from being one of the Army's best. The Pentagon had set April 1 as the target date at which the 43rd would be fully trained and ready for combat. But two months more had passed and the division, even by its own reckoning, was still only about 40% combat-ready. And its morale was scraping rockbottom...
Dirty Hands. When United was at last free to turn to jets, the job was turned over to Leonard S. ("Luke") Hobbs, whom Rentschler regards as the world's finest aviation engineer. Luke Hobbs, a Texas A. & M. graduate and World War I combat infantryman, already knew the fundamentals of jet-turbine work. He had built an experimental jet engine in 1940 but had shelved it to push his development of the Wasp Major. He brought himself up to date on jets by turning out Westinghouse-type engines. Then United bought the U.S. rights to Rolls-Royce...
...Broke! (MGM) adds another laurel to one of the most decorated U.S. combat units of World War II,* the Nisei of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Treated at first with taunts and suspicion, rankled by the knowledge that their families were herded into resettlement camps, the Nisei proved themselves both loyal Americans and superb fighting...