Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radford was called back to Washington to straighten out Navy air administration -particularly in the matter of getting combat-equipped planes from the factories to the fighting areas. When that had been satisfactorily attended to, he went to sea again, this time commanding Carrier Group 58.4-a component of wizened, brilliant Marc Mitscher's Task Force 58. His group joined the first carrier strikes- after Doolittle-on the Japanese home islands...
When twelve combat veterans of Major General Claire Chennault's famed Flying Tigers sank their savings into an airline in 1945, they were sold on the future of air freight. But, as one Flying Tiger Line executive moaned: "The only trouble is, we've often gone nearly broke trying to get other people to see it." Last week the Tiger Line thought that people were beginning to see things its way. On a gross of $4,964,168, some 60% higher than last year, the line reported a $500,346 net profit (including a $183,500 carryback credit...
...most of the professionals on the Korean front thought they knew the reason why: the 2yth Regiment had something no other outfit had. That something was its commander, a lean, pleasantly hard-bitten West Pointer named John Hersey Michaelis, 38. Last week, the men of Colonel Michaelis' 27th combat team tangled with a capable and battle-tested foe, a 45-year-old North Korean lieutenant general named Kim Mu Chong, onetime commanding general of the Chinese Communists' famed Eighth Route Army. Kim's men met "Mike" Michaelis' men at a road junction 15 miles northwest...
...1930s knew Lou Reynolds as a handsome glib master of ceremonies who used to wow the customers with his own parody of My Blue Heaven. Lou Reynolds' real name was Louis Sebille, and that was the name he used during World War II when he flew 68 combat missions as a Marauder pilot, wound up with major's leaves and a chest full of medals...
...Colonel" Dick (who served in the Marines during World War I) worked and drilled them from 6 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. each day. The course was heavy with subjects like first aid, military sanitation, treatment of chemical warfare casualties. But it also included large doses of combat intelligence, map reading and military courtesy. In addition, there was "character guidance" under such headings as "Beware of Delilah's Charms," and "The Christian Soldier-All God, Not a Gold Bricker...