Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Formosa, the issue which had caused all the fuss. The President explained that he and the general disagreed only on method-the President had no intention of letting Formosa fall into Chinese Communist hands, but he planned to achieve his objective by neutralizing the island with the Seventh Fleet, while MacArthur proposed outright occupation. MacArthur then said he understood the President's position clearly, and according to Leviero's account, apologized for the embarrassment he had caused the President with his unauthorized message to the Veterans of Foreign Wars on the subject. ¶Everyone at the parley agreed...
Opportunity-and Danger. The Red drives gave Van Fleet an opportunity. Experience has shown that the Chinese run out of momentum, after an advance of 50 miles or so, at a point where their supplies are exhausted and their supply apparatus and order of battle disrupted. Then they make long stops for regrouping and resupply. That would be the time -if he had pulled his forces back with a minimum of casualties and in good cohesive order-for Van Fleet to turn on them and try to cut them to ribbons...
...rear headquarters, Ridgway prepared to relinquish his old command. "This is not goodbye in any sense of the word," he told correspondents, "because I am still very much a part of this team." Before his final departure for Tokyo, he turned reassuringly to his successor, Lieut. General James Van Fleet. "I won't get in your hair, Van," he said...
Name and Rank: James Alward Van Fleet, lieutenant general, U.S. Army...
World War II: Between 1941 and 1944, while some of his West Point classmates were winning general's stars, Colonel Van Fleet trained the 8th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Division; on Dday, one of the Army s older combat colonels he led his regiment to the landing on Utah Beach in Normandy. For Colonel Van Fleet, battle was the true test. Within seven months he was a major general, commander first of the 4th, then the 90th Divisions. He fought the 90th across the flooded Moselle against heavy German counterattacks. By March 1945, he was commander...