Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grounding seriously weaken U.S. defenses. Still in the air were the Air Force's venerable B-36s and shorter-ranged but strategically based B-47s. B-52 crews, moreover, continued to report for around-the-clock duty, and on the flight lines their ships stood combat-ready, their engines tested, their fuel tanks full. "In any need or emergency," said the Air Force, "the B-52s will...
...equipment can be airlifted. At its heart will be five self-supporting battle groups, each 1,580 men strong, and each containing a 155-man 105-millimeter mortar group and a small (220) headquarters outfit. The groups, broken down into five battle companies each, will be backed up in combat by an atom-armed 140-man Honest John rocket detachment, by a 500-man 105-howitzer group, plus engineers, signal and supply people...
...101st was designed for airlifting, there are still general doubts about where its transport planes are coming from. Last May Air Force General Otto P. Weyland, boss of the Tactical Air Command, told a Senate investigating subcommittee that under present capabilities, the Air Force could not move a combat-loaded division from the U.S. to the Far East in less than "a week or ten days." The implication: the transports needed to move the 101st in trigger-quick time may simply not be available...
...week's end the number of French combat troops on Cyprus was expected to be around 6,000. Added to the 25,000 professional British soldiers and airmen estimated to be on the island, this made a sizable striking force for airborne action should a lunge toward Suez or Cairo be ordered. The British maintained a tight security shutdown, and it was impossible for correspondents to judge the degree of activity at Akrotiri air base. Middle East headquarters of the Royal Air Force, which sits on an arid, dusty plain on the southernmost peninsula of the island...
Based on Norman Brooks's unsuccessful 1954 Broadway play, Fragile Fox, the film has raised the hackles of the Defense Department, which considers it "derogatory to Army leadership during combat." A more serious charge is that the picture spends more time making melodrama than making sense. Even in its fighting, the dice are curiously loaded: the G.I.s are shown as tattered scarecrows on the edge of exhaustion in contrast to the spit-and-polish Nazis, who wear uniforms more appropriate to the parade ground than to combat. A similar imbalance flaws the plot. Smithers, though he has the courage...