Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Landing Party. On landing day last week, in the dawn's early light, MacArthur picked his way through a confusion of men in helmets and life jackets, climbed onto the admiral's bridge chair. He wore his old braided, sweat-stained garrison...
...miles flown without accident, helped make the Cairo take-off of Trans World Airlines' Flight No. 903, Bombay to New York via Rome, a routine matter. With no indication of trouble ahead, Veteran Pilot Walton Webb took the big Constellation Star of Maryland off Farouk Field just before dawn and headed northwest...
...dawn came up slowly over Korea, the admiral stepped out on his bridge and squinted into the first light. Commander Charles Kinsella, air operations officer, announced, "Make ready to launch in ten minutes." Captain W. K. ("Puss") Goodney, the carrier's captain, responded with an order to make "fox at the dip"-meaning: raise the code flag for the letter "f" (red diamond on white base)-halfway...
Familiar Ground. At dawn next day, Ed Ewen's carriers, operating almost in sight of the enemy coast, were again filled with roaring propellers and shrieking jets. At 5:45 a.m. I went to the little ready room. Our Skyraider took off from the Showboat and flew fast and low for the Naktong line west of Masan...
First Threat. But the situation soon became clear. The enemy was forced to give ground all along the front. At Tuksong, southwest of Taegu, the Reds had put a small force across the river at night. When dawn came, they were so close to the U.S. positions that Gay's gallant troopers fought them off with bayonets, rifle butts, knives, even fists and feet. The Reds seemed to have no taste for this sort of combat and retreated across the Naktong with heavy casualties, but they came back to fight again near Waegwan (called "Wigwam," "Waukeegan," or "Podunk...