Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best to be said of Korea was that the worst had not happened. The U.S. forces threatened with annihilation a fortnight ago had not been destroyed, and were not likely to be destroyed. Lieut. General Walton H. Walker's rapid withdrawal of the Eighth Army saved most of it; the fighting retreat of the X Corps in the northeast saved most of that command, too (see below...
...prestige had been sorely crippled in Korea, and this week all evidence pointed to a secret high-level decision that Korea was no place to repair it. It was noteworthy that the Eighth Army made no effort to throw a defense line across the peninsula; Eighth Army spokesmen denied any commitment to defend Seoul; and heavy equipment was being loaded rapidly onto ships at Inchon. If Korea were in fact abandoned, it could be done without abandoning the policy of punishing aggression. Mao's China could be effectively punished elsewhere-for example, by blockade and bombardment of the China...
...battered but not broken Eighth Army rolled south, with vehicle columns bumper-to-bumper on the roads and a million refugees alongside. Trucks and jeeps that broke down were not repaired -they were shoved off the road and burned. Said a reconnaissance pilot, looking down on the dreary spectacle of U.S. defeat and retreat: "This hurts. It hurts where I can't scratch...
Locustlike Swarm. Because it had wheels, the Eighth outdistanced the pursuing foe. Other than patrol actions and skirmishes, there was hardly any fighting last week in the western sector, but spokesmen both in the field and in Tokyo warned that the lull was deceptive. The intelligence estimate was that 18 divisions of Chinese were trying to come to grips with the Eighth Army. Chinese crossed the Taedong estuary in a vast fleet of power junks and small craft; farther back they waded the Chongchon and tinged the icy river with blood when allied airplanes strafed them. But the locustlike swarm...
Tunner believes, the Eighth Army advanced chiefly on supplies brought in by airlift...