Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speech reviewing the history of U.S. military aviation, Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan F. Twining last week made news heard all the way to Moscow. In a two-week period ending Dec. 11, said Twining, more than 1,000 Strategic Air Command B-47 jet bombers flew nonstop combat training missions averaging 8,000 miles each over North America and the arctic. "This is the first time that the nation's Strategic Air Force has tested the operational capability of its strike force in such large numbers during such a short period of time. These missions demonstrated...
YOUR OWN BELOVED SONS, by Thomas Anderson. A first novel about the Korean war that has virtues seldom encountered in more highly praised war novels: a surprisingly accurate feeling for the way men really feel during combat, an understanding of the relationship between the leader and the led, a sense of soldierly compassion that never becomes maudlin...
GALLIPOLI, by Alan Moorehead. A monument to the British defeat by the Turks at Gallipoli in 1915-which, like many another military disaster, is better remembered for valor than for folly. Combat writing that can stand with the classics in a much overwrit ten field...
...Army. "We're not going to set up an air force within the Army," said Deputy Defense Secretary Reuben Robertson, as he explained the Wilson memo to newsmen. Army aviation is strictly limited to such functions as liaison and observation within a combat zone extending not more than 100 miles beyond the front lines, and the Army is specifically forbidden to provide its own strategic and tactical airlift, tactical reconnaissance or close-combat air support. More important, the Army is restricted to a 200-mile range in its surface-to-surface missiles (on the theory that they could...
...lines accepted by Premier Nagy in Hungary's five days of freedom. Said Gomulka bluntly last week: "There will be no freedom for bourgeois [Western-type] political parties in this country." For the anarchy which is the real threat to his power he had a warning: "We shall combat ruthlessly provocateurs, scum, and all those who disturb public order, threaten, or commit lynching...