Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James A. Van Fleet shocked the Senate Armed Services Committee into an investigation of the U.S. Army's ammunition shortage (TIME. March 16 et seq.), the security-minded Senators heard much of his testimony in closed session. Last week the committee released a censored version of the former Eighth Army commander's secret testimony-testimony which made it clear that the ammunition shortage was only one of many U.S. blunders in Korea. Said Van Fleet...
...evening before Raymond Matlock's eighth birthday, his family headed for Washington, N.J., 15 miles south of the Matlock farm, to buy presents for his party. Packed into the new Matlock sedan were Raymond and nine relatives: father at the wheel, mother, brother, three sisters, grandmother, two aunts...
...second line of defense: perhaps the disagreement between Collins and Van Fleet could be explained by different definitions of "shortage." As the hearing went on, however, it became clear that the Army had a shortage of ammunition by anybody's definition. Van Fleet specified that the Eighth Army had not always had enough ammunition on the firing line. At times, he said, there was not enough to support counterbattery fire or to cope with Chinese "human sea" attacks. All the Pentagon witnesses conceded that in the past reserve stocks in Korea had fallen dangerously low. Under questioning by Harry...
Pentagon spokesmen made much of the fact that the Korean shortage was no longer critical. Today, said Defense Secretary Wilson, the Eighth Army has "the ammunition necessary for operations on the present scale." To some of the Senators, Wilson's statement sounded like another way of saying that the Eighth Army did not have ammunition enough for operations on a bigger scale...
Recently a top U.S. commander was asked which were the best line divisions in the Eighth Army. Without hesitation, he answered: the U.S. 1st Marine Division and the British 1st Commonwealth Division. In a valley north of Seoul during the dark days of December 1950, a British lieutenant colonel had just ordered a necessary counterattack during a withdrawal action. The officer (who was killed a few months later) was holding a mess tin with some scraps of food in it, and weeping as he watched his men fall. He turned to a U.S. correspondent beside him. "You'll forgive...