Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place of honor. On the Inchon waterfront Almond saw tanks loaded aboard LSTs. He flew in a Piper Cub 200 miles south to inspect the 7th Infantry Division in another staging area; he watched the doughfeet, stripped to the waist in the warm South Korean sun, maneuver through combat exercises in paddy fields and up hillsides...
...92nd combat record was spotty. It became a polyglot group, absorbing other U.S. and Allied contingents. On the 366th Regiment's front, some Negro troops fell back precipitately before an enemy attack,* a British Indian unit had to close the gap in the line. Once, at a forward post under machine-gun fire, Almond ordered a sergeant to go out and silence the enemy gun. After a while the sergeant came back...
MacArthur had seven U.S. divisions* and two U.S. regimental combat teams (about 125,000 men), six South Korean divisions (about 60,000 men), one Australian and two British battalions (about 3,000 men). The Eighth Army was battle-hardened and victory-flushed, had unchallenged air support. For amphibious operations it had an equally unchallenged Navy: six aircraft carriers, the U.S. battleship Missouri, six cruisers, hundreds of destroyers, landing craft and other vessels...
...Along Manchuria's railways, linking Port Arthur with Mukden, Vladivostok and Manchouli, are another 50,000 Russians. These may be railroad guards rather than organized combat troops...
...Much Medicine? To combat disastrous postwar inflation, Premier Alcide de Gasperi's government three years ago had launched Italy on a course of courageous fiscal austerity. The government tried to spend as little as possible on public works, clamped severe restrictions on bank credit. These measures worked to stop inflation, stiffened the spine of the lira. But Italy, the ECA men say, has had an overdose of its fiscal medicine...