Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea, the Communists in recent weeks have been doing much of their fighting with loudspeakers. Red messages blare across no man's land promising hot food, good treatment and warm shelter to Eighth Army troops who go over to the Red side. Sometimes the Reds promise liquor, women, steaks and even automobiles (make unspecified). But the enemy's loudspeaker campaign has been, to put it mildly, ineffective. He has broadcast Swedish music and talks in German to Dutch troops, the haunting strains of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny to unmoved South Koreans, and he has offered...
...Army had bad news for Chinese commanders in Korea. Within a month, Eighth Army G.I.s will have a new weapon against "human sea" attacks - the 4½-oz. M14 anti-personnel mine. The M14's vest-pocket size (diameter: 2½ in.; depth: i½ in.) and its inconspicuous color (khaki) will make the laying of invisible minefields quick and easy. Its plastic case safeguards it from discovery by mine detectors. The miniature mine's capacity for destruction is limited-it is unlikely to do serious damage to a vehicle-but Army tests indicate that it has enough...
...more detailed appraisal of the Eighth Army, see INTERNATIONAL...
...first five men will play in the same positions today as they have all season. In order they are Charlie Ufford, Dave Watts, Hadden Tomes, Charlie Elliott, and Larry Brownell. A lineup in the lower spots has Johnny Rauh sixth, Guy Paschal seventh, Bill Wister eighth, and Mike Ward ninth. Steve Sonnabend will go along as alternate...
...Panaceas." What did Ike get out of his trip to Korea? He tried to give an off-the-cuff summary to 125 correspondents who crowded into the Eighth Army's war room for a press conference on his last day. Said he: "We have no panaceas, no trick ways of settling any problems . . . How difficult it seems to be in a war of this kind to work out a plan that would bring a positive and definite victory without possibly running the grave risk of enlarging the war. There are many limitations in a war of this kind...