Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Douglas MacArthur, perhaps chastened by recent experiences, balanced his crystal ball neatly between optimism and pessimism. On his eighth visit to the battle zone, MacArthur discounted Chinese Nationalist reports that the Chinese Communists, disgusted by the nonarrival of Soviet air support, were pulling out of Korea. Said MacArthur: "The entire military might of Communist China is available against this relatively small command." But he deplored "loose talk" to the effect that the U.N. forces might be pushed out of Korea. "No one," he said, "is going to drive us into...
...Wonju, in the frigid uplands of central Korea. For 16 days, the U.S. 2nd Division (in which a French and a Dutch battalion had been incorporated) had held a horseshoe salient just south of the town, from which the allied force could rake it with artillery. Early last week, Eighth Army Headquarters announced that the salient was being given up in order to shorten and straighten the allied line. The withdrawal was carried out under artillery and air protection which prevented enemy interference...
...Sleeping. The 2nd Division was singled out for handsome praise last week by General Ridgway, the Eighth Army commander. No doubt this, and the toll of enemy casualties, comforted the G.I.s-if anything could comfort them in the dreadful mountain winter. In a grim dispatch describing their ordeals in the "awful, bitter, uncompromising, relentless cold," Scripps-Howard Reporter Jim Lucas quoted a mortar platoon lieutenant addressing a handful of green replacements...
MacArthur identified Bigart's charges as "a phase of the irresponsible propaganda campaign against the command." He added: "I know of no professional soldier who will fail to recognize that the tactics of which [Bigart] complains and which he understands so little probably saved the Eighth Army from destruction and certainly from much heavier losses...
Colonel Echols snapped: "There is not an ounce of truth in it." General MacArthur's headquarters itself had ordered the change since, with separate releases coming from Ridgway's and MacArthur's headquarters, there was frequent duplication and sometimes conflict. "Since the Eighth Army now controls all ground activity," added Echols, "it is more efficient to let it announce all news concerning day-to-day operations...