Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Formosa. President Eisenhower, with Dulles' approval, canceled the Truman order that obliged the U.S. Seventh Fleet to protect the Communist mainland from Chiang Kai-shek's troops. This change created a threat, made it more hazardous for Mao to mass strength on the Korean, and Indo-Chinese borders...
...Americans are more popular with the battered masses of Korean people than big, patient General James A. Van Fleet, for two years field commander of U.N. forces in the Korean war. Few know as much at first hand of the country's postwar problems. Ever since he retired from the Army last March, General Van Fleet has worked actively in the privately organized American-Korean Foundation...
...Milton Eisenhower, its first chairman, withdrew from office because of the pressure of other work, and General Van Fleet was selected to administer its growing activities...
There was little time for planning. The monsoon (May to October), which turns the great Red River delta flats into a mucky red lake, would soon be over, the paddies and jungle trails would soon be alive with the fleet, tough troops of the Communists. The Reds were poising for a mighty-and they hoped decisive-blow at monsoon...
Though some were certainly dead, the U.N. had solid evidence that many of the men had been Red prisoners at one time. Among 944 Americans on the list: Air Force Captain James A. Van Fleet Jr., West Pointer son of the former Eighth Army commander; Jet Ace Captain Harold E. Fischer, who bagged most of his ten enemy planes by disdaining the prized radar gunsight, relying instead on naked eyesight and "Kentucky windage...