Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fleet: As far as I know, General Ridgway...
This exchange made the hearing's only headlines. Most of Van Fleet's testimony was a reprise of things he had said before. He stuck to his guns, insisting that shortages of ammunition-especially of mortar and 155-mm. howitzer shells- had made it impossible to "plan adequate defensive fire, harassing, interdiction and counterbattery, to keep the enemy from launching an attack." Asked whether he had enough ammunition to halt a Chinese offensive, Van Fleet replied: Yes, but only because "the Chinese cannot maintain an offensive for more than a few weeks. They do not know...
Counterattack Readied. After listening to Van Fleet and Almond, subcommittee members were surer than ever that some types of ammunition had been in chronically short supply in Korea...