Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Appeasement. Mr. Hoover was convinced that the U.S. should get out of Korea, should stiffen its hold on Formosa and the Philippines and give the Japanese independence and arms for defense. It should cut off Western European allies without another dollar or U.S. soldier until they organize and equip combat divisions "of such large numbers as would erect a sure dam against the Red flood...
...Korea last week, the fastest operational U.S. jet fighter plane got its first trial in combat, and the pilots shot down seven enemy planes. The American jets were North American F-86 Sabres, which had been clocked at 670.981 m.p.h. at Muroc Dry Lake, the Air Force's proving ground in California, and were reputed to be even faster. Russia's vaunted MIG-15, which had "walked away" from F80 Shooting Stars in Korea, is certainly almost as fast as the Sabre (and may be equally fast), but the F-86s were touted as sturdier, more maneuverable...
...death came to the Little Bulldog. From his command post he was riding to the front north of Seoul, to present unit citations to the 24th Division (first in Korea) and the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade, and a Silver Star to his son, Captain Sam Walker, a 24th Division combat officer. A three-ton truck driven by a South Korean pulled out of line in a southbound column, directly in the path of Walker's jeep. The general's driver could not avoid a collision. Walker was thrown to the road. He was dead when an ambulance...
Having proved themselves in combat, the Sabres may be useful as protective cover for bombers and for the slow, propeller-driven Mustangs which have been the Air Force's work horse for ground attack in the Korean war. If Russia decided to commit a swarm of fast jets, the Mustangs would be sitting ducks if unprotected-but not if top-covered by enough Sabres...
...novel, The Red Badge of Courage, and a handful of poems and stories, notably The Open Boat, The Blue Hotel and The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. Written when Crane was 22, The Red Badge was a brilliantly intuitive study of war and the emotions of men in combat, by a man who had yet to see a battlefield...