Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fired off a demand to Tokyo for an explanation. From Washington, J.C.S. Representative Major General John E. Hull and the State Department's Deputy Undersecretary H. Freeman Matthews hustled down to Key West. After hurried conferences, a statement was issued flatly denying the A.P. report. In Korea, the Eighth Army's General James Van Fleet said that an order of his had been "misinterpreted" by subordinate commanders...
General Van Fleet's headquarters had issued an order, the gist of which was: don't shoot unless you are shot at. It would have been better if the Eighth Army commander had called U.N. newsmen in beforehand, and told them what he was doing instead of letting them draw their own conclusions from what they saw and heard at the front. The ensuing high-level ruckus, which reverberated all the way to Washington and Key West (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), did not trouble the men in the front lines. Using a bayonet to dig chunks of ham from...
...Including a paraphrase from TIME'S most recent Churchill cover story (his eighth): "Where they saw despair, he saw hope; where they saw defeat, he saw challenge; where they saw surrender, he saw opportunity to attack. And in the darkness of 1940, he dared to tell history: 'This is our finest hour...
...Jenkins splashed ashore with the Engineers on D-day at Lingayen Gulf. He landed in Japan later in 1945-"just a few days after MacArthur," stayed there in the U.S. occupation. In 1949, having already served one extra hitch with the Eighth Army, it seemed impossible to re-enlist on a permanent peacetime basis. Army regulations normally set the maximum re-enlistment age at 35, plus the years already spent in federal service. Jenkins was 27 years short of qualifying...
...Seoul, Mayor Kim Tai Sun presented Eighth Army Commander General James A. Van Fleet with a scroll, an eight-inch silver key, a bouquet of roses and pronounced him honorary mayor of the city on its 558th anniversary as capital of Korea. A few days later, Mayor Sun was out of office. The R.O.K. government inspection committee dismissed him for embezzling several hundred million won of government funds...