Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From the Superintendent of Documents, $1.25; in trade editions (Rhinehart, distributing for Combat Forces Press, and McGraw Hill...
...morning before dawn, under a quarter moon, Captain Frederick T. Griffiths of Cleveland shouted these brave words to his combat-green company. The Communist enemy was swarming down on them from the crest of a ridge. After the astonished Reds had been chased off the hill, down the far slope and off another hill, Captain Griffiths exulted...
...Task Force Kean"* (the 35th Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division, the 5th Regimental Combat Team and elements of the 1st Marine Division which landed last fortnight) jumped off, Negro units holding a flanking ridge were due to be relieved by marines. But alert North Koreans slipped in, beat back the marines, brought up machine guns and artillery, opened fire on the vehicle-crammed road and on U.S. artillery positions and command posts...
...Philippines last week offered to send immediately to Korea, for service under the U.N. flag, a regiment of 5,000 combat infantry. That made No. 9 on the list of U.N. members who had sent or offered to send troops. The other eight: the U.S., Britain, Nationalist China, Siam, Australia, Turkey, New Zealand, Canada...
...future warfare," wrote Dr. Bradford in the New England Journal of Medicine, "there is likely to be no combat zone of any magnitude except for civilian target areas . . . and the number of casualties may be immense. Thus, the number of doctors needed will be very much greater than ever before, and the waste of doctors, improvidently squandered throughout military and naval establishments, idly waiting for action, will be not only inexcusable but insupportable...