Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dupuy believed that cuts in officers will come at schools offering instruction in non-combat branches such as the Quartermaster and Signal Corps. Artillery is termed a combat branch...
...little Russian's feat appear rather tame by comparison. But . . . this big tough Russian murmuring "Eto Nichevo," as he [disen tangled himself from] his warning buzzers and portable political tutors after landing "near the white chalk cross," is what prompted me to write . . . All my friends here in Combat Control would like to extend a formal invitation to the U.S.S.R. parachute-jumping team to a spot jumping contest. We don't think chalk crosses (so many feet wide) are quite sporting; we'd rather a silver dollar, thumbtack or playing card were used for a mark...
...monster is dead . . . the era of the lie is ended," proclaimed the leftist Combat. The Communist Humanité crowed: "A great victory." Pro-EDC critics charged bitterly that Mendès had allowed the 99 Communist votes to decide the fate of France. Mendès apologists insisted that had the debate continued to the bitter end, the anti-EDC majority would have swelled to about 115, enough to kill EDC even without Communist help...
...breed of American heroes: the jet aces. There were 38 U.S. aces (pilots who had downed five or more enemy planes) in Korea, and the figures showed that they were very special men: among them they accounted for more than a third of the 823 enemy jets downed in combat...
...Sympathy. U Nu regrouped Burma's shaky 12,000-man combat force, its three-fighter air force, and stopped the Communists seven miles from Rangoon. In the spring of 1949, U Nu flew north in his flowing longyi and organized the recapture of Mandalay. In 1950 and 1951, Burma's army gained the decisive Irrawaddy Plain. In 1952 the Burmese edged the Chinese Nationalists behind the deep-cut Salween gorges. For a man of peace, U Nu had accomplished a reasonable military...