Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighting were to continue, the Eighth Army's Main Line of Resistance would be menaced by the new Red gains. But under an armistice, the U.N. will have lost little in the last weeks' battles, since the Eighth Army's projected truce line- based on the best defensive lines in all sectors-is well behind present positions anyway...
According to the truce terms, both sides are to pull back two kilometers (about 1¼ miles) within 72 hours of an armistice. Defenses have been in preparation for more than a year by units when in reserve. At headquarters, a top Eighth Army officer explained: "We'll just pick up our stoves and take the glass windows out of the bunkers on the front and move them back a ways. All the new line needs then is a bunch of G.I.s keeping house in it." Despite these paper plans at headquarters, regimental commanders at the front were still...
...River and the Gauntlet, by S. L. A. Marshall. An unforgettable story of the surprise and defeat of the U.S. Eighth Army on its 1950 march to the Yalu (TIME, June...
Historian Marshall is at the top of his technique in The River and the Gauntlet, and his official account of the defeat of the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea by the Chinese in November 1950 bears comparison with anything written about Americans in war. Marshall makes some things clear that will have many a U.S. reader trembling. Here was a whole modern army on the move caught completely by surprise, its units scattered, its communications faulty, its foremost elements short of ammunition to fight off a primitive army that could move only at night and on foot. How it happened...
...25th Divisions formed the center and right flank of the Eighth Army's line and took the brunt of the Chinese assault. It is essentially their stark story that Historian Marshall tells...