Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some respects Eighth Army was not badly off. It had not lost much heavy equipment in the retreat from the north. Most of its troops were veterans who had learned how to fight in Asia...
...hectoring, driving way, Matt Ridgway had changed Eighth Army out of all resemblance to the command, riddled with defeatism, that he had found two months before. Said one staff officer, He will give you a job that is almost impossible, but not quite impossible. It can be done...
...Eighth Army's late commander, General Walton ("Johnny") Walker, was a steady, courageous battle leader who was inclined to flounder in staff work and had 11ttle imagination. After the Chinese Communists smashed into North Korea, neither Walker's starched generalship nor the remote-control direction of Douglas Mac-Arthur's staff in Tokyo could give the Army the direction it needed. Ridgway can. Omar Bradley called him "one of those tremendously valuable Army officers who are both outstanding commanders and amazingly competent staff officers. He can plan an action and he can execute...
Basically, Eighth Army's defeatism was the result of a mistaken premise. Most of the troops still thought of the war in terms of a police action, with a definite beginning and end. They had not realized that the intervention of the Chinese Communists, while it defeated the police action, did not mean...
...general stumped every command post in Korea with his new slogan. Some men were skeptical. A captain sneered, "I was energetic like that when I came here first, too." But most Eighth Army commanders thought their new boss sounded good. Said one colonel, "I got the idea that here is a man who is not going to stand for any foolishness. We had talked about getting to the Yalu and getting home by Christmas . . . Well, I decided to quit thinking about a set time limit on this and decided we are here to fight. I don't like...