Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airborne officers in the Army's top commands. Others: Major General James M. Gavin, Army representative on the Defense Department's top-level Weapons Evaluation Board; Major General Clovis Byers, G-r on the General Staff; Lieut. General Matthew B. Ridgway, now in command of the Eighth Army in Korea (see Cover...
...Eighth Army wasn't letting the enemy have any rest. Having taken the Communist blow in central Korea and then thrown it back with bloody losses, General Matthew Ridgway's men last week waded in after the retreating...
This week, with the precision of a machine, the marines and other divisions of Ridgway's Eighth Army ground their way northward over the mountains of central Korea. Their general's orders were simple: "Use every daylight hour to seek out and destroy the enemy. Inflict maximum casualties and sustain a minimum of your own. Withdraw to strong defensive positions at night. Search every piece ground. Do not push on until you have eliminated every Communist...
Such a tone may have sounded over-optimistic for an army facing an enemy three times its size, with huge reserves ot trained manpower behind him. But in fact, it sensibly understated the Eighth Army's present capability. In the last two weeks battle Ridgway's men had inflicted an estimated 30,000 casualties on Chinese and North Korean Communists, at small to themselves...
Harvard placed seventh in the jump and the combined jump-cross country events and eighth-in the final standings in the Men's Intercollegiate Ski Competition at Middlebury yesterday...