Word: eastward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attack sector extended some 70 miles across Korea's waist eastward from a point on the Yellow Sea below Chongju. The U.S. 2nd, 24th and 25th Divisions jumped off, alongside the R.O.K. 1st, 6th, 7th and 8th and the British 27th Brigade. The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division was held in reserve. The offensive involved about 100,000 Allied troops against about 125,000 of the enemy, mostly Chinese...
...comparison with the U.S. shows a basic weakness. Eastward from Salt Lake City (comparable to Astrakhan in temperature and moisture) the series of soil types is virtually the same as in Russia...
This mountain chain and the northeastern high pressure zone blocked the eastward flow of the western cold air mass. As a result, a low pressure area formed at the south end of the Appalachians, setting off a whirlpool of air which expanded rapidly in size and intensity towards the northwest...
...Chinese seemed to be shifting strength eastward. The Allies, who all week long tried vainly to close a gap in their lines east of Unsan, feared a massive attack aimed at splitting their forces farther apart. These fears deepened when the Communists finally came to life with an artillery and mortar barrage. But no enemy attack followed the shelling. This week the Allies at last established a continuous line with the help of the newly landed U.S. 3rd Division...
...could be supplied through the paralyzing winters, 2) would be strong enough to defend itself, 3) would be central enough to defend Alaska against attack. In any future world war, Alaska would be a prize in transpolar air warfare. Here the U.S. would first intercept Russian planes curving eastward out of the Chukotsk bases (where the Soviets have been building up fuel supplies), bound for such atom-worthy targets as the Hanford plutonium plant in eastern Washington, or the West Coast aircraft plants-or possibly industrial targets in the upper Midwest. Offensively, Alaska was a strategic refueling point for transpolar...