Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bureaus in Berlin, Washington, Dallas and Tokyo all contributed to this issue's cover story on Walton Walker, commanding general of the Far East Command's Eighth Army. The story's opening account of one of the general's trips to the Korean front came from Frank Gibney, TIME'S Tokyo bureau chief, who went along for the ride...
...were two small shiny metal flags, one carrying the three stars of a lieutenant general, the other bearing the letters "CG-8." In the lead jeep, his big hand grasping an arm rest, was grim-faced Walton Harris Walker, 60, commanding general of the Far East Command's Eighth Army...
Last week Douglas MacArthur appointed stocky, tough-minded Lieut. General Walton H. Walker as ground commander in Korea, with the title of commanding general of the Far East Command's Eighth Army. "Johnnie" Walker, 60, replaced Major General William F. Dean, who reverted to his old job as commander of the 24th Division, which has borne the brunt of the U.S. fighting in Korea...
...elder Paik, the colonel to whom I talked, had been sent by the Japanese to Manchukuo's Military Academy. He got his early military experience with the Manchurian puppet forces, fighting Chinese Communists of the Eighth Route Army...
...Maoris did not die out. Today they are a healthy, thriving people. They are among the leaders of many professions. Racial discrimination in New Zealand is un known, and intermarriage of whites and Maoris is common. Through World War II the Maori Battalion fought in Montgomery's Eighth Army, paying heavily in casualties for what they called proudly "the price of citizenship." Recently, when color-conscious South Africa refused to accept Maoris in a team of touring New Zealand footballers, white New Zealanders were bitterly affronted...